placenamesKilmacduagh
Cill Mhic Dhuach
Lewis preserved an account of a timber structure exposed when the lake’s water fell unusually low.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhic Dhuach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilmacduagh · English · main form
Place & story
Oak and wattle beneath the water
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Kilmacduagh entry reports that low water in Lough Deehan exposed a timber house in either 1784 or 1785. He described substantial oak timbers with sides and a roof of oak wattle, and reported that the wood remained sound. Lewis wrote that the structure appeared to have been intended to float. That was an interpretation in the historical account: Lewis supplied no construction date, excavation record or identification of its occupants. His uncertainty about the discovery year also remains part of the record. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmacduagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmacduagh: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-05-28. How this page was prepared.