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Laragh

Láithreach

Samuel Lewis’s contemporary account places Laragh within a water-powered manufacturing landscape.

Watercolour and fine ink illustration of a whitewashed mill workers cottage frontage with grey slate roof, three visible windows, three entrances and clipped shrubs.
Illustration, the photographed frontage of traditional mill workers' cottages at Laragh, County Monaghan, in July 2012
Recorded locationLaragh54.04784° N · 6.78428° 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

  • Láithreach · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Laragh · English · main form

Place & story

Spinning, weaving and bleaching

Writing in 1837, Samuel Lewis described Laragh’s flax mills as the property of Messrs. Davison. Recently installed spinning machinery formed part of an enterprise that also included weaving and a bleach-green; he reported employment for more than three hundred people. His wider parish account describes fourteen mills sharing the stream from Lough Egish, with an engineer regulating the lake’s outflow. That number concerns the stream’s mill network, rather than fourteen establishments within Laragh alone. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Monaghan
Barony
Cremorne
Civil parish
Aghnamullen
Coordinates
54.04784, -6.78428
Mapped area
1.46 km²
Logainm ID
39866 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Laragh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Aughnamullen, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. Traditional mill workers cottage frontage at Laragh, County Monaghan illustration: based on a Traditional mill workers' cottages at Laragh by Eric Jones. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.