placenamesMonart
Moing Airt
At Forge on the Urrin, Lewis recorded successive uses of one industrial site.
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
- Moing Airt · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Monart · English · main form
Place & story
Andrew Jameson’s investment
Andrew Jameson converted the former works at Forge into a distillery in 1818, according to Samuel Lewis’s account of Monart in 1837. Lewis put Jameson’s investment over twelve years at more than £25,000 and recorded 55,594 gallons of spirits produced in 1830. Distilling had subsequently ceased, and part of the premises had become a flour mill. Its stated annual capacity was nearly 40,000 barrels, rather than a recorded quantity actually milled. The account places these successive enterprises beside the Urrin, whose water supplied the works. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Coordinates
- 52.54823, -6.63048
- Mapped area
- 52.15 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2596 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Monart. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Monart: 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.