placenamesAnnagh
An tEanach
Annagh’s nineteenth-century records distinguish a wide rural parish from the market town of Belturbet.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An tEanach · Irish · main form
- Annagh · English · main form
Place & story
A parish across two baronies
Samuel Lewis described Annagh in 1837 as extending across Lower Loughtee and Tullaghgarvey. Its countryside included arable fields, pasture, bog, woodland and common land. In 1813, forty-seven townlands had been separated to form the Church of Ireland cure of Killoughter. Catholic administration also distinguished Annagh West from Annagh East, or Killoughter, with chapels at Drumalee and Red Hill respectively. [2]
Several kinds of school
The same account records a school supported by Erasmus Smith’s charity and schools at Drumlaney, Killoughter and Drumloor. An infants’ school, other schools and six private fee-paying schools added to this provision. These institutions belonged to the wider parish landscape. They should be distinguished from the separate civic institutions of Belturbet, whose built-up area occupied only part of Annagh. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Loughtee Lower
- Barony
- Tullygarvey
- Coordinates
- 54.08984, -7.35310 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 77.47 km²
- Logainm ID
- 367 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Annagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Annagh or Belturbet — 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.