placenamesDesertegny
Díseart Éignigh
Lewis described a parish economy divided between lower fields and mountain pasture.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Díseart Éignigh · Irish · main form
- Desertegny · English · main form
Place & story
Farming in the mountain landscape
In his 1837 account of Desertegny, Samuel Lewis recorded oats, flax and potatoes on some of the lower ground. Small cattle and sheep grazed where the mountains supported vegetation. He also reported eagles nesting in the Erwys and other high mountains of the district, where they preyed on young lambs. These are nineteenth-century observations of farming and wildlife; Lewis did not identify the eagle species or give a count of nesting birds. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Inishowen West
- Coordinates
- 55.19602, -7.51119
- Mapped area
- 30.52 km²
- Logainm ID
- 782 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Desertegny. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Desertegney, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2023-08-29. How this page was prepared.