Baile na Lorgan

Baile na Lorgan, 'the town of the long low ridge', gives Castleblaney its Irish name, while the English form derives from the Norman-Welsh planter Sir Edward Blayney, who received extensive land grants here under the Plantation of Ulster in the early seventeenth century. The townland had earlier been known as Caislean Mathghamhna ('MacMahon's Castle') under Gaelic lordship; the Irish form Baile...