placenamesRussagh
An Rosach
Lewis’s 1837 account records two kinds of quarrying in this Westmeath parish.
Recorded locationRussagh53.65870° N · 7.49889° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
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 Rosach · Irish · main form
- Russagh · English · main form
Place & story
Stone in an agricultural landscape
Russagh’s limestone was quarried for agricultural use when Samuel Lewis described the parish in 1837. He also recorded quarries producing black flagstone, which he considered particularly good in quality. Much of the usable farmland was under tillage, alongside a substantial area of bog. Lewis placed the parish’s southern limit at the River Inny and included the small lake he called Lough Gar or Cappa within it. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Russagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Russagh in A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.