placenamesTullyrossmearan
Tulaigh Ros Sméarann
Local speech recorded in 1834 helped shape the later official Irish form of Tullyrossmearan.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Tulaigh Ros Sméarann · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tullyrossmearan · English · main form
Place & story
From local speech to an official form
Placename researchers Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich and Aindí Mac Giolla Chomhghaill trace the name to evidence collected from local Irish speakers in 1834. Those speakers understood it as referring to a hill and blackberry shrubbery. The Placenames Commission put Tulaigh Ros Sméarann forward for public consultation in 1962 and recommended that form in its 1969 publication of Irish postal-town names. [2]
The researchers acknowledge an alternative interpretation involving the personal name Méarán. They favour the blackberry explanation because it fits both the nineteenth-century record and the local pronunciation. The name therefore preserves a documented linguistic debate rather than an entirely undisputed translation. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Clanawley
- Civil parish
- Cleenish and Islands
- Coordinates
- 54.34461, -7.98462 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 130663 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tullyrossmearan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Blackberries, greenfields, and briars · Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich and Aindí Mac Giolla Chomhghaill
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.