placenamesCruagh
An Chraobhach
Lewis’s 1837 employment figures distinguish active factories from a larger industrial capacity.
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
- An Chraobhach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cruagh · English · main form
Place & story
Paper and woollen manufacture
Of four paper mills recorded in Cruagh by Samuel Lewis in 1837, only one was operating, employing about sixty people. Two woollen manufactories together employed a hundred, compared with more than six hundred a few years earlier when fully working. Their products included flannel, blankets and heavier woollen cloths. Lewis’s account therefore records reduced activity in both trades, without supplying exact closure dates or identifying a single cause for the decline. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Uppercross
- Coordinates
- 53.24900, -6.29958
- Mapped area
- 18.08 km²
- Logainm ID
- 889 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cruagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cruagh in A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.