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
Loch Gamhna· Irish · main form · validated name
An Screabach· Irish · main form · historical name
Scrabby· English · main form · historical name
Lough Gowna· English · main form
Place & story
One street and four fairs
Samuel Lewis described Scrabby in 1837 as a small town arranged chiefly along the Arvagh–Granard road. It had forty houses in 1831 and 183 town inhabitants, a figure distinct from the parish total of 2,668. Four annual fairs took place in February, May, August and December. A sub-post-office connected it with Crossdoney. The account records a modest service and trading centre beside Lough Gowna, rather than a large urban settlement.[2]
The Church of Ireland beside the lake
The former Scrabby Church of Ireland church at Cloone dates to around 1840. A porch and vestry were added in 1908, altering the outline of the simple nave and bellcote. Carved timber furnishings inside also belong to that remodelling. The surrounding graveyard occupies an older enclosed site. Its stone markers and carefully finished entrance form part of a religious landscape that predates the present church building.[3]
People & connections
Thomas Francis McNamara’s Holy Family church
The Catholic Church of the Holy Family was built in 1904 to designs by Thomas Francis McNamara, a pupil and later partner of William Hague. Its Gothic Revival front has corner pinnacles, a rose window and a pointed entrance with decorative iron hinges. A freestanding metal belfry was made by Matthew O'Byrne of Dublin in 1905. Renovation in 2010 preserved the building's role while changing some interior fittings and stained glass. The named designers and makers connect village construction with specialist workshops elsewhere in Ireland.[4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Lough Gowna — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Lough Gowna, Cavan — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Lough Gowna, Cavan
Published census settlement populations
149people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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