placenamesTemplemore
An Teampall Mór
The university property record follows successive leaseholders and a house later mapped as a ruin.
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 Teampall Mór · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Templemore · English · main form
Place & story
Occupants and the end of a lease
The University of Galway’s Landed Estates record places the Ballylahan property in Templemore parish. Pat McLaughlin held it from Sir William H. Palmer in the early nineteenth century, with the Atkinsons recorded there at Griffith’s Valuation. The survey cites Quinn’s account of repossession when their lease expired, without giving a date for that event. By the publication of the 1890s Ordnance Survey twenty-five-inch map, the house was recorded as a ruin. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Templemore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballylahan, property165 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.