placenamesArdagh
Ardach
Lewis recorded a ruined castle within this mountainous parish near Youghal.
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
- Ardach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ardagh · English · main form
Place & story
A tower on the Turra
Samuel Lewis placed Kilnaturra Castle on the banks of the Turra, a river running through Ardagh parish, in his 1837 account. He described a substantial square tower, already a ruin but with its fabric well preserved at that time. His wider parish description records mountainous, partly unreclaimed ground supplying turf for fuel, with cultivated land principally used for tillage. These observations concern Ardagh in Cork’s Imokilly barony, near Youghal, and the castle’s nineteenth-century condition rather than its present state. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ardagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ardagh, County Cork — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.