placenamesRockstown
Baile na Creige
Rockstown belongs to Creggandevesky townland, whose court tomb survived a threatened clearance and revealed evidence of Neolithic burial.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Baile na Creige · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Rockstown · English · main form
Place & story
A name within the townland
The Northern Ireland Place-Name Project’s 2007 survey identifies Rockstown as a minor name within Creggandevesky townland. It appears in the entry for Rockstown Road, preserving a local designation beneath the level of the townland name. [2]
The court tomb in the wider townland
Creggandevesky’s court tomb was threatened by agricultural reclamation before excavation between 1979 and 1982 exposed its well-preserved structure. A forecourt leads into three burial chambers beneath a cairn built from granite boulders. The entrance retains an exceptionally large lintel, while surviving roof stones show how the chambers were covered. [3]
Evidence of burial and later activity
Excavators recovered cremated human remains, flint tools and Neolithic pottery. The Department for Communities describes remains representing at least 21 people and evidence of later Bronze Age activity. These finds concern the tomb in Creggandevesky, rather than a documented prehistoric settlement specifically called Rockstown. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Omagh East
- Civil parish
- Termonmaguirk
- Within
- Creggandevesky
- Coordinates
- 0.00000, 0.00000
- Logainm ID
- 122017 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rockstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Omagh District Council Area road-name survey, 4 December 2007, page 31 · Northern Ireland Place-Name Project, Queen’s University Belfast
- Creggandevesky Court Tomb, TYR 037:014 · Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-07-07. How this page was prepared.