placenamesLaghey
The old bridge and a subscription-built church mark the northern end of this Donegal village.
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
- Laghey · English · main form
Place & story
The Seven Arch Bridge
Laghey’s stone bridge dates from about 1768. The architectural inventory records a northern extension around 1775 and repairs in 1797. Its seven arches carried the old mail-coach road between the Dublin–Sligo route and Derry; the southernmost arch was subsequently filled in. [2]
A church by the river
The parish’s own account dates Laghey’s Church of Ireland church to 1834 and records alterations in 1911, 1915 and 1999. Built as a chapel of ease through private subscriptions, it presents an elaborate entrance front beside the river, with slender buttresses, stone pinnacles and a central bellcote. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Laghey. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Laghy Bridge, register 40848002 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Laghey church: parish history · Donegal Group of Parishes
- Part of the old stone bridge at Laghey, as photographed in 2008 illustration: based on a Seven Arched Bridge at Laghy by louise price. 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 2026-07-01. How this page was prepared.