placenamesBallymore
An Baile Mór
The Churchtown district joined two parishes while its church stood on the Tacumshane side.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Baile Mór · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballymore · English · main form
Place & story
A shared ecclesiastical district
Samuel Lewis records that Ballymore and Tacumshane were formed into an ecclesiastical district called Churchtown in 1832. Writing in 1837, he placed its new church in Tacumshane, close to Ballymore’s boundary, and recorded assistance from an Ecclesiastical Commissioners grant. The church therefore served the shared district without standing in Ballymore civil parish. His entry separately identifies a school at Moonfield Cross, but supplies no opening date or attendance figure. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballymore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballymore, Forth: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.