placenamesCumber Upper
An Comar Uachtarach
Lewis’s account separates continuing linen weaving from bleaching works that were no longer operating.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Comar Uachtarach · Irish · main form
- Cumber Upper · English · main form
Place & story
Different fortunes within the linen trade
People in Upper Cumber combined linen weaving with farming when Samuel Lewis described the parish in 1837. Yet the bleach-greens on the Faughan were idle: he explicitly stated that none of those works was operating. Weaving and finishing therefore had different recorded conditions, rather than forming a single uniformly active industry. His account also describes bog being worked out and brought into cultivation on local estates, placing textile work alongside continuing changes in agricultural land use. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cumber Upper. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cumber Upper: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2011-07-19. How this page was prepared.