placenamesOrior Upper
Na hOirthir Uachtaracha
Lewis recorded tree planting and a mountain road in the Meigh district.
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
- Na hOirthir Uachtaracha · Irish · main form
- Orior Upper · English · main form
Place & story
Planting and access
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Meigh account records planting on Slieve Gullion begun by Jos. Foxall and continued by Powell Foxall. The latter had formed a road halfway up the mountain, with an incline described as one in twenty. Lewis placed these works within a district separated from Killevy for ecclesiastical purposes in 1830. The account documents a particular period of landscape alteration; it does not establish that the road followed the full course of today’s forest drive. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Barony
- Coordinates
- 54.14195, -6.43136 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 200.19 km²
- Logainm ID
- 296 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Orior Upper. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Meigh: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2023-01-13. How this page was prepared.