placenamesDonagh
Domhnach
Lewis distinguished a named milling enterprise outside Glaslough from mills at Emyvale.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Domhnach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Donagh · English · main form
Place & story
Corn and flax at New Mills
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Donagh account places New Mills about a mile and a half from Glaslough. Owned by Mr Young, the corn and flax mills employed about twenty people. He separately recorded mills at Emyvale belonging to William Murdock. The distinction matters when following the parish’s industrial history: the twenty workers belonged to the New Mills enterprise, rather than representing every mill worker in Donagh or the workforce of a single Emyvale factory. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Donagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Donagh, Monaghan: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.