placenamesBallymore
An Baile Mór
The Armagh parish’s nineteenth-century record connects building materials with education and charitable provision.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- An Baile Mór · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballymore · English · main form
Place & story
Stone for Tandragee Castle
Lewis’s 1837 survey describes much of Ballymore as productive arable land, with comparatively small areas of bog and plantation. Building-stone quarries supplied a different resource. The quarry at Tullyhue was then providing stone for the rebuilding of Tandragee Castle. He also recorded deposits of potters’ clay and fullers’ earth close to the town, but explicitly stated that these had not been worked. A known deposit was therefore distinct from an operating industry. [2]
Schools and charitable support
The parish’s educational network drew on several patrons. Lewis recorded a school supported by the rector, five supported by Lord Mandeville and others aided by Lord Gosford and the Reverend Mr Bell. Together with three further schools, these taught about 1,020 children; separate pay schools and Sunday schools also operated. He noted a Montagu family bequest of £100 whose interest was divided equally between poor people in Ballymore and neighbouring Seagoe. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Orior Lower
- Coordinates
- 54.35218, -6.41568 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 57.25 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2753 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballymore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballymore or Tanderagee, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland1837 · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-12-20. How this page was prepared.