placenamesCappagh
An Cheapóg
Cappagh near Pomeroy appears in early twentieth-century records as a small trading hamlet, with older recollections of a communal sweat-house.
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
- An Cheapóg · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cappagh · English · main form
Place & story
The village’s everyday trades
The 1910 Ulster directory places Cappagh's tradespeople under Pomeroy. Francis Boyle ran a public house and grocery business; Patrick Rafferty combined drapery, grocery trading and postal duties. Other entries name a farmer-publican and a horse dealer. [2]
A hamlet on the Dungannon road
A Bureau of Military History recollection describes Cappagh's whitewashed houses at the top of a brae on the road to Dungannon, near Altmore House. The witness remembered troops arriving in the hamlet, reportedly to protect the nearby waterworks. The account connects the small settlement with infrastructure serving a larger town, while preserving a particular observer's impression of its appearance. It is a retrospective account, not a complete survey of the village. [3]
An older memory of the sweat-house
In his 1901 collection Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland, W. G. Wood-Martin records an elderly Cappagh man's recollection of bathing in a local sweat-house. A deep tank beside it provided a cold plunge after the heated chamber. The account explicitly locates the practice near Pomeroy. It preserves a remembered custom of communal bathing, without establishing that the structure survives or giving grounds for assigning it a prehistoric origin. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Middle
- Civil parish
- Pomeroy
- Coordinates
- 54.53716, -6.88753 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414346 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cappagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ulster Towns Directory (1910): Pomeroy, Cappagh entries · Belfast and Province of Ulster Directory
- Bureau of Military History witness statement WS1770, section 4, page 528 · Military Archives, witness statement collection
- Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland, volume II (1901), page 163 · W. G. Wood-Martin
- Reservoir near Cappagh, County Tyrone illustration: based on a Reservoir at Altmore alias Barracktown 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 2012-01-27. How this page was prepared.