placenamesColeraine
Cúil Raithin
Brown cloth from several market towns supplied the parish’s bleach-greens.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cúil Raithin · Irish · main form
- Coleraine · English · main form
Place & story
Cloth for the English market
Samuel Lewis recorded 126,000 pieces of linen bleached and finished at Aghadowey in 1833, almost entirely for England. Workers processed brown cloth bought chiefly at Coleraine, Ballymoney, Strabane and Derry. His 1837 account lists eleven bleach-greens, ten operating, and reports eight hundred looms employed by A. and G. Barklie’s manufacturing venture. The figures describe different stages of the trade, rather than eight hundred bleaching machines or a single factory’s output. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Coleraine. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aghadowy or Aghadoey: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2020-08-18. How this page was prepared.