placenamesGrange
An Ghráinseach
Quarrying and linen production feature together in Lewis’s description of the Armagh parish.
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 Ghráinseach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Grange · English · main form
Place & story
Quarries and a bleach-green
Grange supplied freestone for the restoration of Armagh cathedral, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. He distinguished this from the limestone also quarried in the parish. Linen weaving formed another local occupation, with a substantial bleach-green at Alistragh. These activities connected the rural parish with the cathedral city’s building work and with the wider linen trade, through both cloth production and finishing. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Armagh
- Barony
- Oneilland West
- Coordinates
- 54.38228, -6.67622 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 2745 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Grange. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Grange, Armagh: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-12-20. How this page was prepared.