placenamesTemplecorran
An 1825 bequest placed poor relief in the hands of two local ministers.
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
- Templecorran · English · main form
Place & story
A fund crossing congregational lines
R. G. Kerr left £200 in trust in 1825 for the poor of Templecorran, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. The vicar and the senior Presbyterian minister were to divide the interest among the poor: the £200 was the fund, rather than an annual payment. Lewis also recorded two national schools, at Ballycarry and Windygap, educating about 120 children between them, alongside a private school for ten girls. These details describe the parish also known as Broad Island, which included Ballycarry, rather than the village alone. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Belfast Lower
- Coordinates
- 54.77290, -5.74646 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 19.49 km²
- Logainm ID
- 61283 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Templecorran. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Templecorran: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.