placenamesDunmore
Dún Mór
The wider parish’s educational network and country-house ownership extend its history beyond Dunmore town.
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
- Dún Mór · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Dunmore · English · main form
Place & story
Schools across the parish
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account describes Dunmore as a parish extending across Dunmore and Half-Ballymoe baronies. He counted about four hundred children in two public schools and another 260 in eight private schools, alongside a Sunday school. His figures refer to a parish population far larger than that of the town itself and indicate several places of education within the district. [2]
Carrowntryla’s changing owners
Carrowntryla, within Dunmore parish, passed from Burke ownership to Anne Henry in 1753. It subsequently passed to William Henry, whose daughter Anne married William Handcock in 1802, bringing the property into the Handcock family. The University of Galway records later succession disputes and an estate sale in 1851. In 1928 Major Gerald Stratford Handcock bought back the house and one hundred acres, recovering part of the former family property. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dunmore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Dunmore — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland,1837 · Samuel Lewis; reproduced by Galway County Heritage Office
- Handcock: estate1194 · University of Galway, Landed Estates Database
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.