placenamesKnockmourne
Cnoc Muirne
Lewis records a Board of First Fruits loan for rebuilding the parish church.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cnoc Muirne · Irish · main form · validated name
- Knockmourne · English · main form
Place & story
A loan towards rebuilding
Knockmourne’s church was rebuilt in 1813 with help from a £300 loan from the Board of First Fruits, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. The parish vicarage was united with Ballynoe, although Lewis did not know when that union had been established. His notice dates the church rebuilding and its financial assistance without providing a date for the earlier ecclesiastical union. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Barony
- Kinnatalloon
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Coordinates
- 52.09613, -8.11266
- Mapped area
- 36.1 km²
- Logainm ID
- 642 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Knockmourne. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Knockmourne: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.