placenamesCastlereagh
An Caisleán Riabhach
Grain, provisions and butter reached separate markets in the nineteenth-century town.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Caisleán Riabhach · Irish · main form
- Castlereagh · English · main form
Place & story
Markets and processing
In 1837 Samuel Lewis described Castlerea’s Wednesday corn market as expanding, with a separate Saturday provisions market. Butter went to distant buyers both fresh and packed in firkins, alongside sales of cattle and yarn. A distillery reportedly produced more than twenty thousand gallons of whiskey annually; the town also had a brewery and tannery. This account records several ways that a local market centre processed and sold the surrounding countryside’s produce. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castlereagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castlerea: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2011-11-02. How this page was prepared.