placenamesKillyleagh
Cill Ó Laoch
Lewis described factory equipment and a wider network of handloom weaving.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cill Ó Laoch · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killyleagh · English · main form
Place & story
Steam power and the Manchester market
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Killyleagh account describes the Martin and Company cotton mills, built in 1824 and enlarged in 1828. The six-storey buildings used gas made on the premises, and the proprietors had installed a steam engine rated at thirty-five horsepower. Lewis recorded 244 power looms weaving cloth for printing for the Manchester market. More than 2,000 connected handlooms operated in neighbouring districts, extending the manufacturing network beyond the factory buildings themselves. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Castlereagh Upper
- Barony
- Dufferin
- Coordinates
- 54.43089, -5.71904 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 65710 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killyleagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killyleagh, Down: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.