Information about Toornamweel

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Standard Name:

Toornamweel

Irish Form of Name:

Tuar na Maoile

Translation:

green field of the bald cow

Civil Parish:

Ballynakill in the barony of Ballynahinch
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Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:

Toornamweel
Tuar na Maoile
Thurnamweel Inhabitants

Description:

Is the point of the rocks over which high water passes.

Situation:

Is on the W. shore of Renvile also the W. shore of Curragh.

Information From Joyce's Place Names

Translation according to P. W. Joyce:

Toor, Irish Tuar ; sometimes means (primarily) a bleach-green, or where things are spread out to dry, sometimes (secondarily) a home field where cows graze and are fed and milked. Same with the dim. Tooreen. Toors and Tooreens are often along streams.

Townland Information

What is a townland?:

A townland is one of the smallest land divisions in Ireland. They range in size from a few acres to thousands of acres. Many are Gaelic in origin, but some came into existence after the Norman invasion of 1169

Townland:

Toornamweel is in Curragh townland.