placenamesMartry
Martra
The mill’s own history describes adaptation to the Boyne Drainage Scheme.
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
- Martra · Irish · main form
- Martry · English · main form
Place & story
A changed river level
The Boyne Drainage Scheme threatened Martry Mill’s continued operation in 1978, according to the mill’s own history. A campaign supported by An Taisce and local organisations sought to preserve it as a working concern. The Office of Public Works rebuilt the weir and mill race to suit the river bed’s new level, lowering the wheel and arranging transmission of its power to the machinery. Further restoration in 2012 involved German millwrights working on the waterwheel, sluice gate and damaged internal machinery. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Navan Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.67894, -6.80855
- Mapped area
- 15.77 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1962 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Martry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- About Martry Mill: history, 1970s and 2012 · Martry Mill
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-06-03. How this page was prepared.