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Cong

Conga

Lewis described a historical parish spanning Galway and Mayo, with Lough Corrib helping to carry its stone.

Recorded locationCong53.52765° N · 9.40527° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

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

  • Conga · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Cong · English · main form

Place & story

Quarrying and conveyance

Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Cong account covers a parish extending into both Galway and Mayo. He described building-stone quarries supplying neighbouring counties and identified Lough Corrib as a means of transport, navigable towards Galway for boats of ten tons’ burden. The lake connection linked quarrying with markets beyond the immediate district. These observations concern the wider historical parish, rather than establishing that every quarry or building he mentioned stood in its Galway portion. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Civil parish
County
Galway
Barony
Ross
Coordinates
53.52765, -9.40527
Logainm ID
923 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Cong. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Cong: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.