placenamesTemplemore
An Teampall Mór
Beyond the town’s streets, estate records identify neighbouring country houses, while Richmond Barracks briefly held German prisoners during the First World War.
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 · validated name
- Templemore · English · main form
Place & story
The wider Carden estate
The Carden family’s nineteenth-century property extended well beyond Templemore. The University of Galway’s estate survey places its main Eliogarty holdings in this parish, with additional land in Drom, Fertiana, Holycross and Loughmoe West. It records 2,529 acres in Eliogarty and Lower Ormond being advertised for sale in December 1853. These were parts of a dispersed estate, rather than a measure of Templemore parish itself. [2]
Lloydsborough’s changing occupants
Lloydsborough, in the civil parish of Templemore, was described as Mr Carden’s seat in Wilson’s 1786 directory. The university’s house record identifies Henry Lloyd there in 1814 and John Lloyd in 1837. At Griffith’s Valuation, John held the property outright and its buildings were valued at more than £44. A branch of the Lloyd family retained it into the early twentieth century. [3]
Prisoners at Richmond Barracks
The National Library’s wartime exhibition records more than two thousand German prisoners of war at Richmond Barracks between September 1914 and March 1915. Its display links this temporary wartime use to a photograph published in Irish Life on 11 December 1914. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Templemore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Carden: Templemore and Fishmoyne estate · University of Galway
- Lloydsborough, Templemore civil parish · University of Galway
- World War Ireland: Exiles · National Library of Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.