placenamesDonagh
Domhnach
Lewis recorded cultivation expanding around a parish residence by the bay.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Domhnach · Irish · main form
- Donagh · English · main form
Place & story
Land being brought into cultivation
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Donagh parish in County Donegal places the glebe house beside the bay, about a mile from the church, in ground he described as bog. He gave the glebe’s extent as 162 Cunningham acres, with about fifty under cultivation and more being reclaimed. The stated acre measure belongs to his historical account and is not presented as a modern surveyed area. [2]
Changes to the church
Lewis dated the parish church to 1769 and recorded work in 1812 that raised its walls, renewed the roof and made other improvements. That earlier church-building history is distinct from Carndonagh’s later Sacred Heart church. Lewis’s account supplies no contractor or architect for the 1812 alterations. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Inishowen East
- Coordinates
- 55.21942, -7.28426
- Mapped area
- 104.06 km²
- Logainm ID
- 783 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Donagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Donagh: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2023-10-19. How this page was prepared.