Information about Toghermore

Togher, a causeway (vol. i. p. 374 [reproduced below]). Toghereen in Kildare, little causeway; dim. Toghergar in Galway; Tochar-gearr, short causeway.

In early ages, before the extension of cultivation and drainage, the roads through the country must have often been interrupted by bogs and morasses, which, when practicable, were made passable by causeways. They were variously constructed; but the materials were generally branches of trees, bushes, earth, and stones, placed in alternate layers, and trampled down till they were sufficiently firm; and they were called by the Irish name of tóchar. These tóchars were very common all over the country; our annals record the construction of many in early ages, and some of these are still traceable. They have given names to a number of townlands and villages, several of them called Togher, and many others containing the word in combination. Ballintogher, the town of the causeway, is a very usual name (but Ballintogher in Sligo appears to be a different name - see this in 2nd Vol.); and Templetogher (the church of the togher), in Galway was so called from a celebrated causeway across a bog, whose situation is still well known to the inhabitants.

Ireland was first mapped in the 1840s. These original maps are available online.
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Toghermore

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Toghermore

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

Down Survey Website
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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service

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

• Ballynakilla
• Carrowmoneen
• Cloonascragh
• Pollbaun
• Shantallow
• Togherbeg

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 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.)

Toghermore is in the civil parish of Killererin.

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

• Killerein

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

• Killererin

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

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

• Toghermore