placenamesMagheralin
Machaire Lainne
Lewis described two different stages of textile production in the historical parish.
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
- Machaire Lainne · Irish · main form
- Magheralin · English · main form
Place & story
Manufacturing at Springfield and finishing at Milltown
In Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account, a cambric-manufacturing establishment at Springfield employed 250 people. A bleach-green at Milltown finished more than 10,000 pieces of cloth annually for the English market. These figures concern separate establishments and different measures: workers at Springfield and finished pieces at Milltown. Lewis’s historical Magheralin parish extended into Armagh as well as Down; his account should therefore be read at that parish scale, rather than as a description confined to the village. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Iveagh Lower, Upper Half
- Coordinates
- 54.44571, -6.24761 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 65728 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Magheralin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Magheralin: 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.