placenamesMoorechurch
Teampall na Móna
Lewis’s 1837 parish account records processing works and a named tombstone.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Teampall na Móna · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Moorechurch · English · main form
Place & story
Two kinds of milling
Samuel Lewis recorded a flour and corn mill near Dardistown in Moorechurch parish, with a small tuck-mill in the vicinity. His 1837 account places these works in a mainly agricultural parish on the Dublin–Belfast mail-coach road. It distinguishes the two kinds of works without naming their operators or establishing when either began production. [2]
Jane Sarsfield’s memorial
Lewis also recorded old church ruins and a tombstone in the burial ground commemorating Jane Sarsfield, whom he identified as Dowager Baroness of Dunsaney, with a death date of 1597. This establishes a named memorial reported in the parish in 1837. His brief notice does not supply the inscription in full or establish its present condition. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Duleek Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.65041, -6.28084
- Mapped area
- 21.11 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1974 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moorechurch. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Moorechurch: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-11-04. How this page was prepared.