placenamesDesertcreat
Díseart Dá Chríoch
Lewis described a rural textile economy supplying finished cloth to London.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Díseart Dá Chríoch · Irish · main form
- Desertcreat · English · main form
Place & story
From country houses to the finishing grounds
In 1837 Samuel Lewis recorded two large bleach greens at Tullylaggan and a smaller one near Desertcreat. His account credited the finishing operations with more than 30,000 pieces annually for the London market. Much cloth was woven in country households, with weaving generally pursued alongside agriculture. The parish’s textile economy thus linked work in homes with specialised bleaching and finishing grounds. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.59604, -6.78276 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 63172 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Desertcreat. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Desertcreight: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2010-08-25. How this page was prepared.