placenamesTemplemartin
Teampall Mártan
Lewis recorded surviving estate buildings and a cattle-trading calendar in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Teampall Mártan · Irish · main form · validated name
- Templemartin · English · main form
Place & story
Turrets and a passage at Gurrane
Samuel Lewis described a ruined fortified mansion at Gurrane associated with the Baldwin family, who had bought the estate from the Maskelyne family in 1612. He reported three round turrets still standing and a subterranean passage leading towards the neighbouring bog, entered beneath a ground-floor hearthstone. These are features reported in 1837, not a claim that the passage remains accessible or that the mansion itself was built in 1612. [2]
Four cattle fairs
Lewis listed fairs at Mossgrove on 17 March, Corpus Christi, 2 September and 8 December, chiefly for cattle. The dates place regular livestock trading alongside the parish’s farming and estate economy. The movable religious feast is left as he recorded it, rather than assigned a fixed calendar date. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Kinalmeaky
- Coordinates
- 51.80105, -8.78870
- Mapped area
- 30.59 km²
- Logainm ID
- 685 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Templemartin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Templemartin, Kinalmeaky, Cork: 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.