Historian Liam Price, notes that Luggala, from ga Log an Lá, meaning 'Hollow of the hill', was also known as Fancy, from , meaning ash-tree, and also as Cloghoge (the nearby Cloghoge River drains Lough Tay into Lough Dan). According to Irish academic Paul Tempan, Price's interpretation of this name [Luggala] as Log an Lágh, or 'hollow of the hill', is doubtful; pointing out that there is no evidence in any Irish language dictionaries for the existence of the term lágh. He also notes that the other term Lá is unlikely to be a translation of day; instead, Tempan records the translation as unresolved listing it in Irish Hill and Mountain Names as hollow of the [obscure element].