placenamesStrabane Upper
An Srath Bán Uachtarach
Mountfield’s nineteenth-century minister drew support from both Cappagh and an augmentation fund.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Srath Bán Uachtarach · Irish · main form
- Strabane Upper · English · main form
Place & story
Two sources for a single stipend
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account places Mountfield’s perpetual curacy under the patronage of the rector of Cappagh, the parish to which the district belonged. Of the curate’s £75 stipend, the rector supplied £50 and Primate Boulter’s augmentation fund provided £25. Mountfield also had a penny-post connection with Omagh. These arrangements linked the small ecclesiastical district with both its parent parish and the neighbouring town. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Strabane Upper. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mount-Field: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2016-09-29. How this page was prepared.