placenamesMoyacomb
Maigh Dhá Chonn
Lewis located the industrial change at Johnstown in the parish’s Wexford portion.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Maigh Dhá Chonn · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Moyacomb · English · main form
Place & story
A change of use at Johnstown
Samuel Lewis explicitly placed Johnstown village in the Wexford part of Moyacomb parish in 1837, close to Clonegal on the Ferns–Tullow road. He reported that an extensive distillery there had stopped working about twenty years earlier. Its buildings had more recently been taken down, and Mr. Derinzy of Clonegal had erected a large flour mill on the site. Lewis gave neither an exact closure year nor the mill’s construction date. The account identifies a change from distilling to grain milling at a particular site within the Wexford portion of this three-county parish. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Coordinates
- 52.68440, -6.62241
- Logainm ID
- 2597 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moyacomb. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Johnstown (Wexford), 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.