placenamesOmagh
Samuel Lewis records new market buildings and a regular rhythm of trade in the growing county town.
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
- Omagh · English · main form
Place & story
Grain, linen and cattle
Omagh’s market house had been built in 1830, and its shambles opened in 1834, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of the town. Grain and vegetables were sold in the market house. Saturday markets supplied provisions, with brown linen offered on alternate Saturdays, while cattle fairs took place on the first Saturday of each month. Lewis also describes a newspaper reading room, giving a glimpse of the town’s shared facilities alongside its commercial life. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Omagh East
- Civil parish
- Drumragh
- Coordinates
- 0.00000, 0.00000
- Logainm ID
- 64591 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Omagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Omagh, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis; original1837 text transcribed by Library Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2009-10-05. How this page was prepared.