placenamesAghaderg
Achadh Dearg
Lewis’s 1837 account records domestic weaving for Banbridge and distinguishes active stone raising from discontinued slate quarries.
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
- Achadh Dearg · Irish · main form
- Aghaderg · English · main form
Place & story
Linen woven at home
In 1837, Samuel Lewis described substantial linen manufacture in Aghaderg, with many people weaving at home for Banbridge manufacturers. Their work included damask, diapers, drills, shirtings and sheetings. His account places this production within households, without identifying individual employers or giving the number of looms. [2]
Different uses of slate
Lewis also recorded large quantities of clay-slate being raised for road repairs and building. Separately, he reported that slate quarries which had formerly been worked were discontinued. The entry records both ongoing stone extraction and earlier quarrying, without supplying a closure date or identifying the individual workings. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Iveagh Lower, Lower Half
- Barony
- Iveagh Upper, Upper Half
- Coordinates
- 54.29035, -6.32972 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 65717 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aghaderg. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aghaderg or Aghaderrick: 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.