placenamesGartan
Gartán
A short notice in Lewis distinguishes mining that had taken place from a venture already discontinued.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Gartán · Irish · main form · validated name
- Gartan · English · main form
Place & story
Silver and lead in 1835
Samuel Lewis recorded that a silver and lead mine had been worked in the townland of Warrenstown in Gartan parish in 1835. By the publication of his dictionary in 1837, work had been discontinued. The notice places an extractive venture within a parish he described as containing extensive heathy mountain and bog. [2]
Support for the parish school
Lewis also reported about fifty children attending the parochial school. Its support came from an endowment associated with Colonel Robertson’s fund and subscriptions from the rector. He listed a Sunday school separately. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Coordinates
- 55.00805, -7.96810
- Mapped area
- 177.97 km²
- Logainm ID
- 788 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Gartan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Gartan: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-10-21. How this page was prepared.