placenamesKeady
An Céide
Lewis records an interrupted mining venture and a reopening still in prospect.
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 Céide · Irish · main form
- Keady · English · main form
Place & story
Work stopped, preparations under way
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Keady account records a lead mine previously opened and worked by the Mining Company of Ireland, then discontinued. He reported that preparations to reopen it were nearly complete and had involved considerable expense. This describes a planned resumption at the time of writing, rather than proof of later production. The account supplies neither an exact reopening date nor quantities of lead extracted. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Keady. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Keady: 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.