placenamesDunaghy
Lewis described farming and textiles sharing a parish of upland grazing and flood-prone river meadows.
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
- Dunaghy · English · main form
Place & story
Work between hills and river flats
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Dunaghy describes young cattle grazing near the foot of the northern hills during summer. Low meadows beside the Ravel and Altakeerag offered another kind of agricultural ground, although the Ravel could flood them rapidly. Textile work supplemented these pursuits: Lewis reported women spinning and men weaving coarse linen and calico alongside farming. His description records several forms of work within the same parish, without identifying a single factory or giving cloth-production totals. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dunaghy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Dunaghy: 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.