placenamesChurchtown
Baile an Teampaill
A parish union was followed by distinct building grants for the church and its nearby glebe-house.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Teampaill · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Churchtown · English · main form
Place & story
Church and house, funded differently
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account places Churchtown’s square-towered church near the centre of the union formed with Dysart and Conragh in 1809. The church was erected in 1811 with a £600 gift from the Board of First Fruits. The nearby glebe-house followed in 1814, financed by a £400 gift and a £210 loan from the same body. Lewis also recorded remains of the older church and its cemetery. The account distinguishes the two building projects and their funding, while preserving evidence of an earlier place of worship. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Westmeath
- Barony
- Rathconrath
- Coordinates
- 53.49025, -7.50248
- Mapped area
- 21.5 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2453 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Churchtown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Churchtown, Rathconrath: 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.