placenamesTullagh
An Tulach
Lewis describes spade cultivation and manure carried on horseback in the coastal parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Tulach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tullagh · English · main form
Place & story
Farming difficult ground
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account describes Tullagh as a hilly, rocky parish embracing Baltimore and Sherkin Island. About half its land was cultivated, chiefly in small patches between the rocks. Farmers worked these plots with spades and carried manure to them on horseback. Other rocky ground provided pasture. The description records how local cultivation adapted to fragmented ground in a parish bordering Baltimore harbour. It concerns the historical parish as a whole, without assigning each practice to Sherkin or the mainland separately. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery West (E.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.48575, -9.35453 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 22.83 km²
- Logainm ID
- 698 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tullagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tullagh, Cork: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.