placenamesLavey
Leamhaigh
Lewis’s 1837 account records objects uncovered during drainage work five years earlier.
Recorded locationLavey53.94452° N · 7.22215° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
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
- Leamhaigh · Irish · main form
- Lavey · English · main form
Place & story
A discovery during drainage
Samuel Lewis reported that draining Lake Lavey in 1832 exposed weapon heads and spears on an artificial island. The finds, which included metal spears, were then in the possession of J. Smith. This is a nineteenth-century notice of a discovery, without an excavation sequence or secure archaeological dates for the objects. It concerns Lavey parish in Cavan, rather than the Derry parish of the same name. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Loughtee Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.94452, -7.22215
- Mapped area
- 43.85 km²
- Logainm ID
- 389 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lavey. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lavay or Lowey: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), reproduced under Lewis1837 · Samuel Lewis; historical transcription published by Cavan Townlands
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-05-28. How this page was prepared.