placenamesDerraghan
An Doireachán
Derraghan’s roadside housing formed part of Bord na Móna’s programme to provide permanent homes for its workers.
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 Doireachán · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Derraghan · English · main form
Place & story
A different kind of company village
Derraghan was one of seven housing schemes associated with planner Frank Gibney and Bord na Móna’s postwar development programme. Architect Fergal Mac Cabe describes its roadside cottages as a smaller, simpler arrangement than the enclosed greens and ambitious layouts of the other schemes. [2]
Building the houses
Engineer Sean Mc Namara recalled supervising the Mount Dillon housing schemes. At Derraghan, Kelly’s of Mullingar built ten bungalows and two terraces of two-storey houses. His account describes how existing water pipes and sewers from an earlier start were reused; water came from the works borehole through a raised tank. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Longford
- Barony
- Rathcline
- Civil parish
- Cashel
- Within
- Derraghan More
- Coordinates
- 53.63126, -7.90758
- Logainm ID
- 32553 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Derraghan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Urbanity and Rurality – The Bord na Móna Villages of Frank Gibney · Fergal Mac Cabe, Bord na Móna Living History
- My Recollection of the Cottage Schemes, from A Path Through the Bog (1995), pages 24–27 · Sean Mc Namara, reproduced by Bord na Móna Living History
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-06-17. How this page was prepared.