placenamesGlanarought
Gleann Ó Ruachta
Lewis recorded household manufacture in Tuosist parish on Kenmare Bay.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Gleann Ó Ruachta · Irish · main form
- Glanarought · English · main form
Place & story
Making cloth along the southern shore
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Tuosist account records a substantial domestic manufacture of coarse flannel, sold mainly in Kenmare. The parish extended along the southern shore of Kenmare Bay, with rocky mountains and bog inland. Some inhabitants also took occasional work in the bay’s fishery, and Ardea had a salmon fishery. His description connects household production and fishing with a market town elsewhere in Glanarought. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Glanarought. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tuosist or Kilmacalogue: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.