Cargins
or Carragans, County Armagh
CARGINS,
or CARRAGANS, an extra-parochial district, in the barony of UPPER
ORIOR, county of ARMAGH, and
province of ULSTER, 6 miles (N. W.) from Dundalk; containing 355 inhabitants.
This
place is situated on the road from Newtown-Hamilton to Dundalk,
and in the midst of a mountainous district: it comprises 503 acres,
of which more than 100 are mountain, half of which is barren rock;
the land in cultivation is of a light friable nature, producing good
crops. The Irish language only is spoken. There is a pay school, in
which are about 35 children.
