placenamesNavan
An Uaimh
Lewis recorded textile production and local relief alongside the Meath town’s wider economy.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Uaimh · Irish · main form
- Navan · English · main form
Place & story
Making sacking
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Navan town and parish in County Meath records a substantial trade in sacking. Between two hundred and three hundred looms in the town used tow brought from northern Ireland. He estimated each loom’s annual output at about forty pieces, each sixty yards long. These are contemporary estimates of production, rather than a modern count of surviving workshops. [2]
Lending and relief
Lewis also recorded a charitable loan society supported entirely by Mrs. Fitzherbert and a separate society for destitute sick people. His account gives no full name for Mrs. Fitzherbert or individual loan terms. The Wednesday market brought together corn, pigs, coarse linen, yarn, frieze and other country merchandise, linking the town’s textile work with its surrounding agricultural district. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Navan Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.64439, -6.69946
- Mapped area
- 13.61 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1905 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Navan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Navan, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-07-09. How this page was prepared.