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Uachtar Tíre
Lewis described facilities for the cotton community as well as the machinery of production.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Uachtar Tíre · Irish · main form · validated name
- Upperthird · English · main form
Place & story
Services within the factory concern
Portlaw’s cotton works included a dispensary for working people under a resident surgeon and a school teaching between eighty and a hundred children, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. A temperance society numbered nearly five hundred members and met fortnightly in a room fitted out for its meetings. These particular facilities formed part of the industrial settlement, although Lewis’s account does not establish who used the dispensary or whether all the children were mill workers. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Upperthird. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Portlaw: 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.