placenamesSaint Margaret's
Paróiste Mhaighréide
Lewis’s 1837 account concerns the parish also called Raven, north-east of Wexford.
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
- Paróiste Mhaighréide · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Saint Margaret's · English · main form
Place & story
A church already gone
Samuel Lewis reported in 1837 that Saint Margaret’s ancient church had stood near the shore and had been washed away many years before. He gave no destruction date or measured position for it. His entry concerns the parish also called Raven, with a Catholic chapel at Kilmacoe in the Castlebridge district. It is distinct from the Wexford parish of the same saint near Lady’s Island. Lewis’s description preserves a historical report of coastal loss without establishing the vanished church’s age or exact site. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Barony
- Shelmaliere East
- Coordinates
- 52.39835, -6.38123
- Mapped area
- 10.64 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2617 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Saint Margaret's. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Margaret (St.) or Raven, 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.