placenamesTurlough
Turlach
Lewis’s pre-Famine survey records work and institutions across the wider Mayo parish.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Turlach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Turlough · English · main form
Place & story
Stone for farms and buildings
Turlough parish combined cultivated farmland with extensive mountain and bog in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 survey. He described limestone quarrying both for buildings and for agricultural use, and noted a quarry producing black marble. These activities formed part of the parish economy alongside tillage, drawing on the district’s stone as well as its soil. [2]
Bleaching cloth and holding fairs
Lewis recorded a bleach-green run by W. Malley, employing ten men. His account also lists four annual fair dates: 9 May,13 June,24 August and 8 December. The bleaching business and the fair calendar add a different picture of nineteenth-century Turlough to that supplied by its surviving country house: a district supporting trade and manufacturing work as well as estate agriculture. [2]
Schools and congregations
Eight public schools operated in the parish according to Lewis, with individual clergymen supporting several of them. Alongside Catholic chapels at Park and Crumlin, he recorded Presbyterian and Wesleyan Methodist places of worship. His description places these schools and congregations across the wider parish, rather than treating Turlough solely as the small settlement beside the Fitzgerald estate. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Turlough. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Turlough parish in1837, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland · Samuel Lewis
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