placenamesGrange of Muckamore
Gráinseach Mhaigh Chomair
Lewis recorded substantial linen finishing beside paper and grain mills on the Six Mile Water.
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
- Gráinseach Mhaigh Chomair · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Grange of Muckamore · English · main form
Place & story
Different industries on one river
W. Chaine’s bleach-green beside Muckamore’s abbey ruins finished more than eighty thousand pieces of linen each year for the London market, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. On the same river he recorded a smaller bleach-green, a paper manufactory and a flour mill grinding 2,200 tons of grain annually. The latter figure measures grain processed, rather than flour produced. These works employed people from the grange and from Antrim town, connecting riverside manufacturing with a wider local workforce. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Massereene Lower
- Coordinates
- 54.69938, -6.18497 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 16.56 km²
- Logainm ID
- 61328 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Grange of Muckamore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Muckamore: 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.