placenamesDesertmartin
Díseart Mhártain
Lewis records productive stone workings alongside coal seams considered uneconomic.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Díseart Mhártain · Irish · main form
- Desertmartin · English · main form
Place & story
Stone, coal and household industry
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account records limestone quarries serving building and agricultural needs in Desertmartin parish, together with freestone quarried for construction. Coal seams had also been discovered, but he considered them too thin to justify the expense of working. Alongside farming, inhabitants spun flax and wove linen in their farmhouses. The account distinguishes established quarrying and household textile work from coal deposits whose discovery did not, in his assessment, promise a viable mining enterprise. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Derry
- Barony
- Loughinsholin
- Coordinates
- 54.76867, -6.67917 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 38.76 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2903 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Desertmartin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Desertmartin: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2009-01-27. How this page was prepared.