Muckamore
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Muckamore (Irish: Maigh Chomair) is a townland and village on the outskirts of Antrim in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.[1] It is located in the civil parish of the Grange of Muckamore in the barony of Massereene Lower.[2]
It is the location of Muckamore Abbey Hospital and the disused Muckamore railway station. Muckamore Cricket Club is named after the village. Muckamore Forest is nearby.[3]
History
[edit]Muckamore Priory was an Augustinian priory which dates back to at least 1283, and was itself built on the site of an earlier church building.[4] Only buried ruins of the original priory remain, which were examined during excavations in 1973.[5] A further survey was made in 2011.[6]
A document in the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland hypothesizes that the name may have derived from the Irish muck airi mor, for "great field of adoration".[6]
In 1861, the townland of Muckamore was described as having ten subdivisions, known as "towns".[7] As of 1831, it had a recorded population of 1,479.[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Muckamore Townland, Co. Antrim". www.townlands.ie. Retrieved 2026-06-18.
- ↑ "Maigh Chomair/Muckamore". logainm.ie. Retrieved 18 June 2026.
- ↑ "Muckamore Forest, including Rea's Wood, Antrim town | nidirect". www.nidirect.gov.uk. 2015-11-05. Retrieved 2026-06-18.
- ↑ "Muckamore Priory". Department for Communities. Retrieved 19 June 2026.
- ↑ "Muckamore Abbey, Muckamore Priory". Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record. Retrieved 2026-06-19.
- 1 2 "Muckamore Abbey, County Antrim: geophysical report" (PDF). Queen's University, Belfast. p. 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-07-12. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
- ↑ Reeves, W. (1857). "On the Townland Distribution of Ireland". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1836-1869). 7: 473–490. ISSN 0302-7597.
- ↑ "1831 Census of Ireland, Abstracts of Answers and Returns Made under the Population Acts, 55 Geo. III -- Chap. 120. 3 Geo. IV. -- Chap. 5. 2 Geo. IV. -- Chap. 30. 1 Will. IV. -- Chap. 19.: Enumeration 1831". visionofireland.org. Retrieved 18 June 2026.
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