placenamesKnockmore
An Cnoc Mór
Knockmore’s surviving bridge, a dated railway photograph and a parliamentary answer trace its changing role on Lisburn’s western side.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Cnoc Mór · Irish · main form · validated name
- Knockmore · English · main form
Place & story
Four arches for an unfinished railway plan
The Ballinderry Road bridge carries the road obliquely over the railway in Knockmore townland. Built early in the twentieth century, it replaced a level crossing and provided four brick arches on stone abutments. The official building survey connects this generous provision with the Great Northern Railway’s plans for additional tracks. Those plans were only partly realised, leaving one outer arch without a railway beneath it. [2]
The junction at work in 1976
Albert Bridge photographed Knockmore Junction on 14 August 1976. His accompanying account identifies the conductor of the Antrim–Lisburn service preparing to hand a single-line tablet to the signalman. The photograph records the working arrangements of a rural junction shortly before its closure in 1977, when the Antrim line was extended separately into Lisburn station. It preserves a particular operating moment as the railway layout was about to change. [3]
Factories for displaced businesses
A parliamentary answer in May 1975 described another change in Knockmore’s economy. Minister Stanley Orme reported twenty thousand square metres of multipurpose industrial buildings, with another eight thousand under construction. The estate’s purpose was to accommodate firms displaced by civil disturbance or redevelopment. Seven tenants then occupied about half the existing space. The answer records a specific stage in the development of industrial premises on Lisburn’s outskirts. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Massereene Upper
- Civil parish
- Blaris
- Coordinates
- 54.50016, -6.08574 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1165840 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Knockmore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballinderry Road railway bridge,Knockmore,HB19/10/007 · Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division
- Signal cabin,Knockmore Junction,14August1976 · Albert Bridge, original photograph and eyewitness caption
- Knockmore Project,House of Commons,22May 1975 · UK Parliament, Stanley Orme written answer
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.