placenamesDunmoyle
An Dún Maol
Dunmoyle became the family home of Sir John Ross through his wife Katharine’s inheritance from Colonel Deane Mann.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Dún Maol · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dunmoyle · English · main form
Place & story
An inherited Tyrone estate
Katharine Ross inherited her father Colonel Deane Mann’s Dunmoyle estate in 1894. She had married John Ross in 1882. The inheritance helped support a household that also maintained a residence in Dublin’s Fitzwilliam Square. Ross was then a unionist MP for Londonderry city; after losing his seat in 1895, he returned to his legal career and became a land judge in 1896. [2]
Retirement and writing
Ross became lord chancellor of Ireland in 1921, the last holder of an office abolished the following year. In retirement he published two memoir volumes, The Years of My Pilgrimage in 1924 and Pilgrim Scrip in 1927, followed by Essays and Addresses in 1930. He died at Dunmoyle on 17 August 1935. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Clogher
- Civil parish
- Errigal Keerogue
- Coordinates
- 54.52063, -7.05788 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414199 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dunmoyle. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ross, Sir John, Dictionary of Irish Biography, 2009 · William Murphy
- Dunmoyle Catholic Church, as photographed in2014 illustration: based on a Dunmoyle RC Church by Kenneth Allen. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-01-25. How this page was prepared.