placenamesClonduff
Cluain Daimh
Lewis places linen finishing near Hilltown within the parish’s river landscape.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cluain Daimh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Clonduff · English · main form
Place & story
The upstream end of a textile river
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description locates a bleach-green on the Bann about a mile from Hilltown. He identifies it as the uppermost bleach-green on the river and notes the Bann’s importance to linen bleachers and manufacturers farther along its course. The description places Clonduff within that working river corridor. His use of “uppermost” describes the site’s position upstream, rather than establishing it as the earliest bleach-green founded on the Bann. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Iveagh Upper, Lower Half
- Coordinates
- 54.19557, -6.14582 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 85.96 km²
- Logainm ID
- 65732 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clonduff. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clonduff or Clanduff: 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.