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Barony

Cremorne

Críoch Mhúrn

A trading centre also supported a subscription library in the early nineteenth century.

Grey stone market house with four gated round arches, four upper sash windows and a central pediment.
Illustration, Ballybay Market House in Cremorne barony, as photographed in June 2012
Recorded locationCremorne54.13270° N · 6.82132° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

  • Críoch Mhúrn · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Cremorne · English · main form

Place & story

A weekly rhythm

Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account records Ballybay’s Saturday market, with separate grain markets on Tuesdays and Fridays. Between October and February, weekly flax sales ranged from eight thousand to twelve thousand stone. Monthly fairs brought horses, cattle and pigs for sale. Alongside this commercial activity, a reading society founded in 1816 maintained a library of nearly one thousand volumes through annual subscriptions. These details capture both trade and organised cultural life in a town within Cremorne. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Barony
County
Monaghan
Coordinates
54.13270, -6.82132
Mapped area
346.55 km²
Logainm ID
199 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Cremorne. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Ballibay: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
  3. Ballybay Market House, Cremorne barony illustration: based on a Ballybay Market House 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 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.