People and Places of Galway

Standard Name:

Cloonmore

Irish Form of Name:

Cluain Mór

Translation:

great lawn or meadow

Civil Parish:

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

Cluain mór
Cloonmore
Cloonmore Boundary Surveyors Sketch Map
Cloonaghmore County Cess Collector
Cloonmore County Map
Glenmore Inq. Temp. Car. I
Carrownaclownaghmore Inq. Temp. Car. I
Cloonmore Inq. Temp. Eliz
Clonomore Inq. Temp. Eliz
Clonmoir Inq. Temp. Jac. I
Clunmore Inq. Temp. Jac. I
Cloonaghmore Inq. Temp. Jac. I
Cloonomore Inq. Temp. Jac. I
Cloonmore Local
Cloonaghmore Rental
Cloonaghmore Revd. Pat Cannavan, P.P.

Description:

The property of Captain Grant of this townland. Nearly all held by the proprietor. A small portion is let at 30 shillings per acre. Soil is middling good. No antiquities. Religion one Protestant family, the remainder Roman Catholics. Farms from 2 to 6 acres. Produces middling crops wheat and potatoes. Co. Cess 14D paid per acre.

Situation:

This townland lies [Unable to read.] [Unable to read.] of the pairsh of Killower. Bounded on the North by the parish of Kil[Unable to read.][Unable to read.][Unable to read.] Parish of Killower in townland. In the Barony of Clare and County of Galway.

Area in Acres, Roods and Perches:

A.	R.	P.
287	0	25

Land value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:

£.	s.	d.
51	6	0

Building value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:

£.	s.	d.
9	0	0

Total value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:

£.	s.	d.
55	14	8

Heads of housholds living in the townland at this time:

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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:

Cloonmore is a townland.

Original OS map of this area.
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Ireland was first mapped in the 1840s. These original maps are available online.
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Cloonmore

Original OS maps at the Ordnance Survey of Ireland website.
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Cloonmore

Information from the Down Survey Website.
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The Down Survey website will tell you who owned this townland in 1641 (pre Cromwell) and in 1671 (post Cromwell).

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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service

List of townlands that share a border with this townland:

This is a list of townlands that share a border with this townland.

People who lived here:

You can retrieve a list of people who lived in this townland from 1827 to 1911. This list is compiled from the following resources.

The Tithe Applotment Books
Griffith's Valuation
1901 Census
1911 Census

List of nineteenth century and early twentieth century inhabitants of this townland.

Church records of births, deaths and marriages:

Church records of births, deaths and marriages are available online at http://www.rootsireland.ie. To search these records you will need to know the 'church parish' rather than the 'civil parish'. (The civil parish is the pre-reformation parish and was frequently used as a unit of administration in the past.)

Cloonmore is in the civil parish of Belclare.

Roman Catholic parishes:

This civil parish corresponds with the following Roman Catholic parish or parishes.

Cummer

Church of Ireland parishes:

This civil parish corresponds with the following Church of Ireland parish.

Belclare

In general, the civil parish and the Church of Ireland parish are the same, but, this is not always the case.

Information from the Landed Estates Database.
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The following is a list of those houses in this townland which are discussed in the Landed Estates Database.

Cloonmore

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Information about Cloonmore

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

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Townland Information

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Neighbouring Townlands

Population and Census Information

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