placenamesKilmore
An Chill Mhór
An 1837 account describes a productive Armagh parish whose schools and poor relief drew on several local sources.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Chill Mhór · Irish · main form
- Kilmore · English · main form
Place & story
A cultivated and manufacturing parish
Lewis described Kilmore parish in 1837 as fertile, with improving agriculture, little bog and no waste land. Whinstone supplied building material, while limestone was quarried for both construction and agricultural use. Linen manufacture employed many inhabitants. His account places domestic and industrial work within a largely cultivated parish extending across Lower Orior and O’Neilland West. [2]
Schools and the Honey Pot field
Eight public schools taught about 550 children, supported in different ways by the rector, Erasmus Smith’s trustees and Miss Richardson of Richhill Castle. Two schools received an acre of land each from the rector, who also built their schoolhouses. Land known as the Honey Pot field provided an annual payment to the poor; a separate £50 bequest made by Mr Atkinson of Greenhall in 1827 supplied interest for Protestant poor relief. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Oneilland West
- Barony
- Orior Lower
- Coordinates
- 54.37854, -6.51010 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 2747 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmore, Armagh — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-12-20. How this page was prepared.