placenamesArdstraw
Ard Sratha
Lewis recorded a reduced linen-finishing industry on the River Derg.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ard Sratha · Irish · main form
- Ardstraw · English · main form
Place & story
Spa Mount and the London market
Several bleach-greens had formerly operated in Ardstraw parish, but Samuel Lewis reported only one still working in 1837. At Spa Mount on the River Derg, about 16,000 pieces of linen were bleached and finished each year, principally for the London market. The figure belongs to that establishment rather than to every textile activity in the parish. Lewis’s account records a surviving operation within an industry that had already contracted locally. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Omagh West
- Barony
- Strabane Lower
- Coordinates
- 54.70569, -7.39912 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 209.43 km²
- Logainm ID
- 63184 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ardstraw. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ardstraw: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-10-13. How this page was prepared.