placenamesMagheraboy
An Machaire Buí
Trade and local administration shared a small settlement on the Sligo road.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- An Machaire Buí · Irish · main form
- Magheraboy · English · main form
Place & story
An estate market town
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account placed Derrygonnelly in Magheraboy, describing a main street of newly built houses and a market house on General Archdall’s estate. A Saturday market and livestock fairs on the twenty-fourth of each month served the district. Petty sessions met every other week, while a manorial court sat occasionally. A penny post connected this local centre with Enniskillen. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Magheraboy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Derrygonnelly: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.