placenamesTullycorbet
Tulaigh Charbaid
Lewis’s survey records household manufacture alongside the parish’s crop production.
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
- Tulaigh Charbaid · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tullycorbet · English · main form
Place & story
Farms as places of manufacture
In 1837 Samuel Lewis described a considerable quantity of linen being made in the houses of Tullycorbet’s farmers. Flax and rye supplemented wheat, oats, barley and potatoes in the local crop mix. His account places textile production within farming households, rather than identifying a single factory as its centre. The parish lay on the road between Ballybay and Monaghan, with the Dublin–Derry mail-coach road along its eastern edge. Lewis supplied no figure for its linen output or number of looms. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tullycorbet. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tullycorbet: 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.