placenamesArdlougher
Ard Luachra
Ardlougher in Kildallan parish is documented through a nineteenth-century mill lease, census returns and the church landscape nearby.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Ard Luachra · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ardlougher · English · main form
- Ardlogher · English · main form · local name
Place & story
A mill holding beside the main road
A lease preserved by Cavan County Archives gives a detailed glimpse of Ardlougher in 1857. Perrott Mee Thornton leased part of its mill holding to Dr Andrew Brady of Ardloher Cottage for 21 years at an annual rent of £15. The property included houses, a stable and a turf house. Its southern boundary was the public road from Belturbet to Ballinamore, placing the mill within the district’s transport network. [2]
Population across the Famine decade
The 1851 census recorded 75 people in Ardlougher townland, compared with 135 in 1841. Inhabited houses fell from twenty to thirteen over the same decade. These figures refer to the Kildallan parish townland around this locality, rather than a separately enumerated village, and show a substantial contraction during the years that included the Great Famine. [3]
The parish church to the east
Nearby Kildallon Church of Ireland, east of Ardlougher in Kildallan townland, preserves another strand of local history. The Church of Ireland’s building survey records an 1816 date in the vestry and a Board of First Fruits plan. Welland and Gillespie later changed its orientation, turning the original nave into the north transept. The survey also identifies the circular enclosure of an earlier Christian site. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Tullyhunco
- Civil parish
- Kildallan
- Within
- Bilberry
- Within
- Ardlougher
- Coordinates
- 54.06538, -7.58757 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412169 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ardlougher. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Small Private Collections: P017/0069, lease of 21 April 1857 · Cavan County Archives Service
- Census of Ireland 1851: County Cavan, Kildallan parish, page 96 · Census Commissioners, published 1852
- Kildallon, Ardlougher, building survey 070320 · Church of Ireland, Gloine survey
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.