placenamesCarrigahorig
Carraig an Chomhraic
Carrigahorig grew around water-powered milling, with the surviving miller’s house and histories of village businesses recalling its commercial life.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Carraig an Chomhraic · Irish · main form · validated name
- Carrigahorig · English · main form
Place & story
Thomas Going’s mill of 1805
A stone formerly above the mill entrance recorded that Thomas Going built Carrigahorig Mill in 1805. Seamus King's history describes a four-storey building that processed grain and made oatmeal, with local farmers bringing their crops by horse and cart. Under Bill O'Donoghue, advertisements sought a miller able to dress stones, make oatmeal and grind corn. The substantial mill building was demolished in 1994. [2]
The surviving miller’s house
The house at Firmount is the surviving residential building associated with Santa Cruise Flour Mills. The architectural inventory dates it to around 1790 and identifies it as accommodation for the mill manager. Its three-bay, two-storey frontage conceals an attic and basement, with lower ranges behind. Later exterior finishes and windows altered its appearance, but the inventory records the proportions and form of the older house surviving. [3]
The Sammons’ village business
Michael Sammon bought a small single-storey public house at Carrigahorig around 1880 and enlarged it into a two-storey business combining pub, grocery and post office. His son Michael continued the trade until his death in 1964, after which Catherine Sammon ran it until the mid-1970s. King's account draws on the family's recollections, recording how one premises combined several everyday services within the village. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Civil parish
- Terryglass
- Coordinates
- 53.06633, -8.14621 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 67180 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Carrigahorig. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- The Corn Mill at Carrigahorig,The Lamp2020,pp18–20 · Seamus J.King
- Santa Cruise Flour Mills,miller’s house,registration22400422 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Public Houses in the Parish of Lorrha and Dorrha:Sammons of Carrigahorig,pp38–39 · Seamus King
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.