placenamesGarvaghy
Garbhachadh
A surviving stamp records John McMurran.
Recorded locationGarvaghy54.37044° N · 6.12256° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded location · Logainm.ie
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
- Garbhachadh · Irish · main form
- Garvaghy · English · main form
Place & story
Linen inspection
Garvaghy’s parish history describes a linen seal issued to John McMurran in 1782 and valid until 1798. Its stamp combined his name, parish and county with a spinning-wheel image. Such seals identified cloth inspected under the Irish Linen Board’s system. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Iveagh Lower, Lower Half
- Barony
- Iveagh Upper, Lower Half
- Coordinates
- 54.37044, -6.12256 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 41.53 km²
- Logainm ID
- 65721 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Garvaghy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- A Rough Field: The Story of Garvaghy Parish, chapter 3 · George Musgrave and Paul Thompson / Select Vestry of Garvaghy Parish
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.