placenamesErrigal Keerogue
Aireagal Dochiaróg
Lewis described household woollen production supported by a specialised mill.
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
- Aireagal Dochiaróg · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Errigal Keerogue · English · main form
Place & story
Cloth made on farms
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Errigal Keerogue records a tuck-mill used to finish woollen cloth made in the parish’s farmhouses. Several large corn mills formed another part of its rural industry. He also described freestone quarries supplying material for nearby churches and country houses. Thin coal seams found near Lismore had not been worked. These details distinguish the parish’s operating mills and quarries from a mineral resource that remained unexploited. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Errigal Keerogue. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Errigal-Kerogue: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2009-01-27. How this page was prepared.