placenamesTrough
An Triúcha
Donagh’s quarries supplied decorative and structural building materials.
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
- An Triúcha · Irish · main form · validated name
- Trough · English · main form
Place & story
Quarried stone travelling abroad
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Donagh account records marble used for monuments and architectural ornament, with exports to England and the United States. Freestone from the parish supplied the great entrance at Caledon House, beyond the parish itself. A substantial grey-basalt quarry added another material to this working landscape. These were distinct stone resources, rather than evidence that the Caledon gateway was built from the exported marble. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Trough. 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 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.