placenamesBallymoe
Béal Átha Mó
Lewis measured a substantial fragment beside the old church ruins.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Béal Átha Mó · Irish · main form
- Ballymoe · English · main form
Place & story
Two kinds of limestone
At Oran in Roscommon’s half-barony of Ballymoe, Samuel Lewis recorded the surviving base of a round tower beside the old church ruins. In 1837 he described it as only twelve feet high, with an internal diameter of eleven feet three inches and walls four feet six inches thick. He noted two different kinds of limestone in its masonry. The nearby roadside cemetery remained a place of burial and pilgrimage in his account. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballymoe. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Oran, Roscommon: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.