placenamesTure
An tIúr
Ture’s shore briefly housed an American naval air station during the closing months of the First World War.
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 tIúr · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ture · English · main form
Place & story
The Lough Foyle air station
Construction of the American station at Leper’s Point, Ture, began in January 1918. The US Naval History and Heritage Command distinguishes its commissioning on 1 July from becoming fully operational on 3 September. Flying boats patrolled the northern approaches to the Irish Sea. Operations ended after the November armistice, and the station was decommissioned on 22 February 1919. [2] [3]
Remembering the base
In September 2021, Donegal Daily reported the unveiling of three memorial plaques at the entrance to a former station field beside the R238. The project grew out of Inishowen Maritime Museum’s research for the Decade of Centenaries programme, supported by Donegal County Council and FLAG North. It commemorates a short-lived naval presence rather than an enduring airport. [3]
Ture House
Ture House represents another layer of local building history. The National Inventory dates the two-storey farmhouse to about 1870 and records timber sash windows and a segmental-headed entrance. An earlier house appears on the first-edition Ordnance Survey map of about 1837. The inventory suggests that some of its fabric may have been incorporated into the later house, while leaving that possibility unconfirmed. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Inishowen West
- Civil parish
- Muff
- Within
- Three Trees
- Within
- Ture
- Coordinates
- 55.08797, -7.24820 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413099 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ture. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- New World WarI memorial unveiled in Inishowen,22September2021 · Donegal Daily staff
- NIAH40903914:Ture House,2008 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.