placenames1901 census
83People recorded
16Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Campbell 19
- Whiteside 9
- Fagan 7
- Mayers 7
- Hunter 6
Ardmore
An Aird Mhór
James O’Laverty’s historical account records a Mass station above Lough Neagh and a later building reused as a dwelling.
Recorded locationArdmore54.64815° N · 6.28737° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- An Aird Mhór · Irish · main form
- Ardmore · English · main form
Place & story
Worship above the shore
In his nineteenth-century diocesan history, James O’Laverty described a high bank at Ardmore overlooking Lough Neagh as a place where Mass had been celebrated. He dated a subsequent Mass house to approximately the Restoration period and reported that some of its walls survived within a dwelling occupied by Mr Thomson. His account records changing uses of the same local building fabric; it does not establish that those walls remain identifiable today. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Massereene Lower
- Civil parish
- Killead
- Coordinates
- 54.64815, -6.28737
- Mapped area
- 1.98 km²
- Logainm ID
- 62733 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
83People recorded
16Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Campbell 13
- Gibb 12
- Whiteside 12
- Bickerstaff 10
- Fagan 7
1926 census
This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ardmore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ardmore Townland, Killead: James O’Laverty extract · James O’Laverty, reproduced by Glenavy History
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.