placenamesBallymorin
Baile Mhóirín
Lewis described a flour mill within an agricultural parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Mhóirín · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballymorin · English · main form
Place & story
Waterways at different distances
A large flour mill operated on a stream running from Ballinacurra lake through Ballymorin parish into the Inney, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. He described the parish under the names Almoritia, Moranstown and Ballymoran. The Royal Canal passed within four miles of the parish and benefited the district; Lewis did not place it through the parish itself. He also recorded limestone quarried chiefly for building, alongside predominantly cultivated land. The mill and quarries give a more varied picture of work than his general description of the district as agricultural. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Westmeath
- Barony
- Rathconrath
- Coordinates
- 53.51307, -7.58987
- Mapped area
- 11.08 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2448 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballymorin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Almoritia or Moranstown: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.