placenamesKilmore
An Chill Mhór
The terrace at 9–11 Kilmore Village records changing buildings and shared uses in the townland’s centre.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Chill Mhór · Irish · main form
- Kilmore · English · main form
Place & story
From cottages to a terrace
The historic-building survey contrasts single-storey properties recorded here in the 1830s with the later two-storey terrace. It tentatively dates the house at number 9 to around 1840 and the public house at number 11 to the later 1860s. Its account cautions that the valuation plan contains later annotations, so the building sequence is not precisely established. [2]
The Mason family’s block
The Mason family acquired the block around 1900, when the village post office occupied part of the pub building. A doorway linked the house with the pub until around 1980. Number 9’s frontage follows the bend of the street, while the slightly taller public house occupies the northern end: a compact grouping of domestic, commercial and postal space. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Castlereagh Upper
- Civil parish
- Kilmore
- Coordinates
- 54.38836, -5.77460
- Mapped area
- 0.59 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1165745 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- 9–11 Kilmore Village, HB18/05/024, survey 19 October 2000 · Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.