placenamesCummer
Comar
Cummer’s historic graveyard preserves a dated burial vault and an unusual collection of heraldic and symbolic carvings.
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
- Comar · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cummer · English · main form
Place & story
Church and burial vault
Séamus Bellew’s study places Cummer’s late-medieval church within an older ecclesiastical enclosure in Glebe townland. The graveyard includes a corbel-roofed burial vault dedicated to Edmondus de Burgo and dated 1730. The surviving monuments therefore record several periods of use, extending beyond the ruined church itself. [2]
A heraldic puzzle
Bellew draws attention to the Glynn gravestone’s elaborate arms, including an earl’s coronet, a unicorn and a winged dragon. Their association with the Earls of Granard creates a question about why the Glynn family used them; the article leaves that relationship unresolved. Other local monuments carry mortality symbols and shamrocks. A mapped display panel installed in July 2020 identifies the stones, helping visitors connect individual carvings with family names. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cummer. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- A Heraldic Conundrum from Cummer · Séamus Bellew; first published in Journal of the Old Tuam Society (2021), author’s republication (2022)
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2018-08-07. How this page was prepared.