placenamesLackamore
An Leaca Mhór
Children worked alongside adults at the copper mine.
Recorded locationLackamore52.86148° N · 8.34152° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded location · Logainm.ie
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
- An Leaca Mhór · Irish · main form · validated name
- Lackamore · English · main form
Place & story
Mining households
Inspector Frederick Roper recorded nearly 200 workers in 1841. Eleven-year-old Michael Ryan fed the crusher and broke ore for fourpence daily, giving his wages to his mother. He had never attended school. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Civil parish
- Kilvellane
- Within
- Newport
- Coordinates
- 52.86148, -8.34152 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414529 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lackamore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Children’s Employment Commission: Frederick Roper’s report of 9 June 1841, Lackamore evidence · Frederick Roper; edition by Ian Winstanley, Coal Mining History Resource Centre and Picks Publishing
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-02-08. How this page was prepared.