placenamesTulla
An Tulach
Lewis distinguished a former mining venture from a mineral vein that had not been worked.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Tulach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Tulla · English · main form
Place & story
Two different stages of exploitation
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account places a lead mine on the ploughland of Milltown in Tulla parish. It had been worked previously but was discontinued when he wrote. He separately recorded an unworked vein of white calcareous spar among grey limestone rocks. His description distinguishes actual past extraction from a mineral occurrence that had not become a working mine. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Tulla Upper
- Coordinates
- 52.88898, -8.75068
- Mapped area
- 99.43 km²
- Logainm ID
- 478 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tulla. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tulla: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.