placenamesDuhallow
Dúiche Ealla
A locally managed conservation project linked riverbank work with protection of aquatic wildlife.
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
- Dúiche Ealla · Irish · main form · validated name
- Duhallow · English · main form
Place & story
Fencing, trees and invasive plants
IRD Duhallow received EU LIFE+ funding in 2010 for conservation on the River Allow, a tributary of the Blackwater. Its account names freshwater pearl mussel, Atlantic salmon, otter, kingfisher and dipper among the species the project sought to protect. Reporting near the end of the project, the organisation recorded treatment of more than forty kilometres of riverbanks and drains for invasive plants, thirty kilometres of riverbank fencing and the planting of thousands of native trees. These were measures to improve the riverbed and its banks. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Duhallow. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Duhallow LIFE project: River Allow conservation programme · IRD Duhallow
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.