placenamesCary
Cathraí
Lewis’s Ramoan account describes textile work alongside cultivation on the Antrim coast.
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
- Cathraí · Irish · main form
- Cary · English · main form
Place & story
Work within the farmhouses
Samuel Lewis recorded linen-yarn spinning and cloth weaving in some Ramoan farmhouses in 1837. His parish account also describes exposed fields where wheat failed to ripen well, alongside productive land and grazing on Knocklayd, written Knocklaide in his text. This is a local picture of farming and household manufacture within Cary. The separately described Ballycastle collieries lay in neighbouring Culfeightrin, so their name alone does not place them in Ramoan. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cary. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ramoan: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.