placenamesTemplecarn
Teampall Carna
Lewis recorded several uses of local stone across a historical parish extending into two counties.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Teampall Carna · Irish · main form
- Templecarn · English · main form
Place & story
Quarrying several kinds of stone
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Templecarn describes limestone quarried for agriculture, alongside quarries producing freestone, hard millstones and coarse dark marble. His historical parish lay chiefly in Donegal’s Tirhugh barony, with a smaller portion in Fermanagh’s Lurg. These references concern that wider parish, without assigning each quarry to its Donegal portion. [2]
Ironworking in the past
Lewis also recorded iron ore and mines formerly worked to advantage. He presented this as earlier activity, rather than confirming that iron mines remained operational in 1837. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Templecarn. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Templecarne or Templecoin: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.