placenamesEliogarty
Éile Uí Fhógarta
Lewis described a castle enclosure and the damage attributed to lightning.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Éile Uí Fhógarta · Irish · main form · validated name
- Eliogarty · English · main form
Place & story
A tower within an enclosure
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account describes Moycarkey Castle as a large square tower within a substantial walled enclosure, with smaller towers at its eastern and western corners. Formerly a Cantwell residence, it then belonged to Viscount Hawarden and was occupied by William Foley. Lewis reported that lightning had breached both the principal tower and eastern wall nearly half a century earlier. His approximate interval supplies no exact date for the damage. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Eliogarty. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Moycarkey: 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.