placenamesTartaraghan
Lewis recorded a timber road at Derrycorr and a local explanation linking it with Saint Patrick.
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
- Tartaraghan · English · main form
Place & story
Timber revealed by turf cutting
Samuel Lewis described a buried road at Derrycorr in Tartaraghan parish in 1837. Long oak timbers supported transverse split-oak planks beneath a layer of sand and gravel. Turf cutting had exposed the structure, which his account said could be traced towards Lough Neagh. This is a nineteenth-century report of a discovery, without a scientific date for the timber or a claim that the road remains visible today. [2]
The cathedral story
Lewis also recorded a local belief that Saint Patrick built the road to carry sand for constructing Armagh cathedral. The saint’s involvement and the road’s supposed purpose belong to that tradition; they are not established by the reported timber remains. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Oneilland West
- Coordinates
- 54.45950, -6.55419 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 40.2 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2752 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tartaraghan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tartaraghan or the Low Parish: 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.