placenamesModel Farm
An Mhodhfheirm
Accounts of parish work and community housing record life in Downpatrick’s Model Farm estate.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- An Mhodhfheirm · Irish · main form · validated name
- Model Farm · English · main form
Place & story
Sisters living in the estate
In the 1990s, Mercy Sisters Brigid Quinn and M. Louis Donaghy moved into the Model Farm estate to work in the parish. The congregation's own history places this mission in the context of families moving to Downpatrick from Belfast during the Troubles. Other sisters continued the work as personnel became available. [2]
Community self-build housing
Model Farm later hosted a housing project involving Habitat for Humanity and the Northern Ireland Co-Ownership Housing Association. In the Assembly on 12 November 2007, Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie described visiting the project twice that year. She cited it as an example of partnership in providing community self-build homes for lower-income households. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Model Farm. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Sisters of Mercy, Downpatrick, 3 August 2012 · Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy
- Official Report, 12 November 2007: Co-ownership and Shared Equity · Northern Ireland Assembly; Margaret Ritchie
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.