placenamesThe Temple
An Teampall
Motorcycle racing on the local roads began with a twenty-five-mile handicap in 1921.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Teampall · Irish · main form · validated name
- The Temple · English · main form
Place & story
The first race and the Temple 100
Local men formed the Temple Motorcycle and Athletic Club in 1921. Ten riders contested its first road race around Temple and Carricknaveagh on 3 September that year, with twenty-year-old Thomas Graham Lindsay winning on an Imperial J.A.P. machine. The club also organised cycling, football and athletics. Its own history records 69 Temple road races across five local circuits. The final Temple 100 took place in 1999; subsequent club racing continued at other venues. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Castlereagh Upper
- Civil parish
- Killaney
- Within
- Carricknaveagh
- Coordinates
- 54.47042, -5.91741 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 130165 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — The Temple. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Our Story: The Temple Motorcycle and Athletic Club · Temple Motorcycle and Athletic Club
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.