placenamesMagheradrool
Machaire Eadargúil
Lewis described an unusual bequest alongside schools and textile work in the Down parish.
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
- Machaire Eadargúil · Irish · main form
- Magheradrool · English · main form
Place & story
A literary bequest
In his 1837 account of Magheradrool parish in County Down, Samuel Lewis recorded a charitable bequest from the late S. M. Johnstone. One-third of the profits from a work called Medley, published in 1802, was assigned to relief for poor people. Lewis valued the resulting annual payment at about £4 3s. 4d. and stated that it was distributed at Christmas. His account identifies a continuing share of publication profits, rather than a single donation of that amount. [2]
Schools and textile work
Lewis counted about 650 children in seven public schools and about 180 in six private schools, with six Sunday schools recorded separately. The parochial schoolhouse had received assistance from the lord-lieutenant’s school fund in 1824. Across the parish he also noted extensive weaving of linen, cotton and muslin, and two large bleaching greens. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Iveagh Lower, Lower Half
- Barony
- Kinelarty
- Coordinates
- 54.38364, -5.88795 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 50.87 km²
- Logainm ID
- 65722 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Magheradrool. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Magheradroll, 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.