placenamesCarrowmenagh
Ceathrú Meánach
Carrowmenagh in Inishowen preserves a history of practical education through its former lace school and the schoolhouse now used as a community centre.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ceathrú Meánach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Carrowmenagh · English · main form
- Carrowmena · English · main form · validated name
Place & story
The Crochet House
A thatched cottage in the heart of Carrowmenagh served as a training school for lace and crochet. Local historian Joan Doherty records that its tutor, Miss Cassidy, travelled from Buncrana by train to Carndonagh and then cycled twelve miles to the village for the week’s teaching. She lodged locally, often with the McCann family who ran the post office. The school gave young women skills they could use in work at home. [2]
A schoolhouse reused
Carrowmenagh’s community centre occupies a school building dating from 1928. It became a community centre in 1980, giving the former classrooms a new role as space for local meetings, classes and events. A voluntary committee manages the centre. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Inishowen East
- Civil parish
- Moville Lower
- Within
- Turmone
- Within
- Carrowmenagh
- Coordinates
- 55.25745, -7.07198 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412957 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Carrowmenagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- The Lace School, excerpt from Forging Friendships (2013) · Joan Doherty; History Links Project
- Welcome to Carrowmenagh Community Centre · Carrowmenagh Community Centre
- Post office and telephone kiosk, Carrowmenagh illustration: based on a Carrowmeanagh Post Office by Kenneth Allen. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.