placenamesRearymore
Raoire Mór
Lewis recorded an active burial ground and a local feast-day observance in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Raoire Mór · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Rearymore · English · main form
Place & story
The churchyard in use
Samuel Lewis placed Rearymore’s ruined church in the grounds of the residence of J. Meredith. An extensive burial ground surrounded it and remained in use when his dictionary appeared in 1837. His description records the church’s continuing place in local burial practice after the building itself had become a ruin. [2]
A well visited on the saint’s feast
Near the church ruins, Lewis recorded a well dedicated to Saint Finian. It comprised three or four water-filled cavities in solid rock. He described it as a place of local veneration, particularly visited on the saint’s festival. This is an attested nineteenth-century devotional observance; Lewis supplied no calendar date for the festival. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Tinnahinch
- Coordinates
- 53.13989, -7.47764
- Mapped area
- 56.4 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1454 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rearymore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rerymore or Reary — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.