placenamesLayd
Leithead
Lewis’s fair calendar places livestock trading within the parish’s coastal town.
Recorded locationLayd55.05752° N · 6.10224° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded 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
- Leithead · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Layd · English · main form
Place & story
Seven fairs through the year
Cushendall, in Layd parish, held seven annual fairs in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. He identified Raghery ponies, cattle, sheep and provisions among their principal trade. The calendar ran from 14 February to 22 December, with meetings in March, May, August, September and November between them. A market house served the town, which also held petty sessions every other week and maintained a house of correction. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Glenarm Lower
- Coordinates
- 55.05752, -6.10224 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 81.3 km²
- Logainm ID
- 61313 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Layd. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cushendall, Layde parish: 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.