placenamesDrinagh
Draighneach
Lewis’s parish and county accounts describe the trade and the coastal rock it drew upon.
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
- Draighneach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Drinagh · English · main form
Place & story
Stone leaving the harbour
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Drinagh parish in County Wexford records limestone quarries near the harbour shore. He reported annual shipments exceeding twenty thousand tons, without naming destinations or identifying individual quarry operators. The figure describes stone shipped in his account, rather than a measured modern reserve or an output assigned to every quarry separately. [2]
A narrow coastal limestone strip
In his account of Wexford’s geology, Lewis described a narrow limestone strip at Drinagh continuing south along the coast for four or five miles. He distinguished bluish-grey stone containing corallites and bivalves from an associated brownish-grey granular magnesian limestone. This description concerns the wider coastal rock formation; it does not establish the boundaries or working faces of individual Drinagh quarries. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drinagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drinagh, Wexford: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- Wexford Geology: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.