placenamesForkill
Foirceal
Lewis connects the parish’s corn mills with a route to Liverpool.
Recorded locationForkill54.09811° N · 6.45595° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded location · Logainm.ie
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
- Foirceal · Irish · main form
- Forkill · English · main form
- Forkhill · English · main form · local name
Place & story
Four mills and an export market
Samuel Lewis recorded four corn mills within Forkill parish in 1837. Meal from them was exported through Dundalk to Liverpool, linking inland processing with a nearby port and an overseas market. He also noted linen and cotton manufacture on a limited scale. The four-mill figure belongs to the parish, rather than the small town alone, and the account gives no separate production figures or workforce totals for the mills. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Orior Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.09811, -6.45595 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 2754 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Forkill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Forkhill: 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.