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Farming in lough egish co monaghan 1976
Lough Egish (Irish: Loch Éigis, meaning "lake of the learned man") is a rural area in County Monaghan, Ireland which takes its name from the local lake, Lough Egish. It is situated approximately midway between Ballybay, Castleblayney and Carrickmacross.
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In 1901, after the Cooperative movement was formed in Ireland by Horace Plunkett, 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 movements 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. There is a DVD about Loch Egish its name is "A Trip To Loch Egish"