placenamesMurragh
Maigh Rátha
Lewis recorded a projected route from Collier’s quay to Dunmanway through the parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Maigh Rátha · Irish · main form · validated name
- Murragh · English · main form
Place & story
An intended inland waterway
A canal through Murragh had been contemplated by the time Samuel Lewis published his dictionary in 1837. The proposed line ran from Collier’s quay, about four miles below Bandon, to Dunmanway, a distance he gave as approximately eighteen miles. Lewis reported that the scheme appeared suspended. His description therefore records an intended transport link rather than a completed waterway. The parish already contained flour mills, making the proposal part of a landscape where grain processing and river access were economically significant. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Kinalmeaky
- Barony
- Carbery East (W.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.77410, -8.87458
- Mapped area
- 35.43 km²
- Logainm ID
- 747 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Murragh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Murragh, 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.