placenamesTempletogher
Teampall an Tóchair
Lewis recorded waterpower and limestone quarrying in the parish’s working landscape.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Teampall an Tóchair · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Templetogher · English · main form
Place & story
Milling and stone in 1837
Samuel Lewis described a trout stream powering two oatmeal mills in Templetogher parish in 1837. He also recorded limestone quarries and about twenty acres of woodland amid the parish’s extensive bog and mountain. The two mills belong to his historical parish description; he did not name them or identify individual mill buildings. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Templetogher. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Templetogher: 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.