placenamesMagheross
Machaire Rois
Lewis linked tenant farming around Carrickmacross with a subsidised supply of agricultural lime.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Machaire Rois · Irish · main form · validated name
- Magheross · English · main form
Place & story
Eight thousand barrels in 1835
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account calls Carrickmacross parish Magheross and describes limekilns near the town. He reported that Mr. Shirley supplied his tenants with lime at about half the usual price, with roughly 8,000 barrels burnt in his kilns in 1835. Lewis attributed improvements to the land to extensive use of lime as manure. The account connects estate management with the material used by tenants to improve their fields. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Magheross. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Carrickmacross or Magheross: 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.