placenamesKilmore
An Chill Mhór
Lewis’s 1837 description records a cultivated Down parish extending across two baronies.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Chill Mhór · Irish · main form
- Kilmore · English · main form
Place & story
A landscape producing barley
Kilmore parish extended across Kinelarty and Upper Castlereagh. Lewis’s 1837 account divided its landscape into arable land, pasture, woodland, bog, water and uncultivated ground, with arable land making up the largest share. He singled out the large quantity of barley produced, giving this rural parish a specific agricultural character beyond the crossroads settlement. [2]
Different forms of schooling
Four public schools taught about 360 children, while nine private schools taught approximately 310. Seven Sunday schools supplied further instruction; one at Cross-gar House was supported by Miss McNeil Hamilton. These are parish-wide figures from before the Great Famine, rather than attendance totals for the village alone. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Castlereagh Upper
- Barony
- Kinelarty
- Coordinates
- 54.39192, -5.79820 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 65711 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmore, Down — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.