People and Places of Galway

Standard Name:

Toormore

Irish Form of Name:

Tuar Mór

Translation:

great bleach or green field

Civil Parish:

Tynagh
View all place names in this civil parish.

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

Towermore
Toormore
Glebe (North) of Teena B. S. Sketch
Turmore Inq. Temp. Car. I
Towermore Mr. Lynch
Towermore Mr. Mulloy, The inhabitants
Towermore Revd. Mr. Robinson

Description:

All under cultivation. It contains nothing worthy of remark.

Situation:

In the parish of Teena, Barony of Leitrim, about 1/4 of a mile N. West of Teena village.

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.

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:

Toormore is in Tynagh townland.

Original OS maps at the Ordnance Survey of Ireland website.
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This link is not a link to the townland that you are currently researching; however, if you follow this link, you will see a search box near the top of the page which you can use to search for your townland.

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Toormore

Information from the National Monuments Service.
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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service

Information about Toormore

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Information From Joyce's Place Names

Townland Information

Information From Maps