placenamesBanagh
Báinigh
Plantation grants linked southwest Donegal with a Scottish landowning family.
Recorded locationBanagh54.68915° N · 8.47313° 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
- Báinigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Banagh · English · main form
Place & story
Changing landholders
The 2010 Donegal plantation booklet records eight Scottish land recipients in the combined Boylagh and Banagh precinct, all of whom withdrew early. Their lands came under Sir Robert Gordon of Lochinvar and later the Murray family of Broughton. The resulting estate included land around Ardara and Killybegs, with herring and salmon fisheries, although its remoteness limited its economic prospects. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Banagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- County Donegal and the Plantation of Ulster (2010), pages13–14 · Ulster-Scots Community Network, with assistance from the Ulster-Scots Agency; published by the Ulster-Scots Agency
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.