placenamesTullylish
Tulaigh Lis
Lewis recorded large-scale finishing work and mills combining steam with water power.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tulaigh Lis · Irish · main form
- Tullylish · English · main form
Place & story
Cloth finished for market
More than 138,000 pieces of linen were finished for market on Tullylish’s Bann-side bleachgreens in 1834, according to Samuel Lewis. His 1837 account treats bleaching as a particular local specialism. It also records a thread manufactory at Miltown employing 170 people and a fine linen-yarn mill at Coose employing 200. Both works combined steam and water power. A further linen-yarn mill at Gilford was then being built. These figures distinguish cloth finishing from thread and yarn production, while the new Gilford works remained a project under construction. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Iveagh Lower, Upper Half
- Coordinates
- 54.36628, -6.32167 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 49.04 km²
- Logainm ID
- 65731 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tullylish. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tullylish — 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.