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Lough Egish
(
Irish
:
Loch Eigis
, meaning 'lake of the learned man') is a rural area in
County Monaghan
,
Ireland
,
[1]
which takes its name from the local lake, Lough Egish. It is situated approximately midway between
Ballybay
,
Castleblayney
and
Carrickmacross
.
In 1901, after the Cooperative movement was formed in Ireland by
Sir Horace Plunkett
,
[2]
a group comprising ten local farmers set about forming the County Monaghan-based Lough Egish dairy co-operative which was, until the 1980s, independently known as Lough Egish Co-operative and Dairy Society. Lough Egish later merged with the
County Cavan
-based
Killeshandra
Co-op Creameries in an effort to consolidate the movement's ambitions of becoming the largest milk processing unit in the north midlands region by rationalising the capacity for milk production to form a new company called
Lakeland Dairies
. The other major milk processing co-operative in the region
Bailieboro
Co Op was a later addition to the Lakelands Dairies, making the group one of the largest and most successful milk processing companies in Ireland.
[
citation needed
]
There is a DVD about Lough Egish; its name is
A Trip To Loch Egish
.
Lough Egish and surrounding areas host a number of national and international brands including Agro Merchants, Cooltrim Oil Co Ltd, Gaffey Motors, Glanbia, Lakeland Dairies, Lavelle Hardware, Malones, Platinum Tanks, Rangeland Foods and SFS Steel Formed Sections.
[3]
54°04′01″N
6°48′00″W
/
54.067°N 6.800°W
/
54.067; -6.800
