placenamesMan of War
A bypassed coaching route and a long cricket tradition connect Man of War with wider Fingal life.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Man of War · Irish · main form
- Man of War · English · main form
- Man o' War · English · main form · local name
Place & story
Changing the northern road
In 1831 William Dargan was engaged to improve the alignment of the road between Ballough and Balrothery, bypassing the steep hill at Man of War. The work was completed in 1834. Fingal's industrial heritage survey records this alteration as part of the development of the county's main roads. [2]
Cricket at Man of War
Jim Bennett's cricket history identifies a Man-O-War match against Balbriggan's Wanderers on 21 May 1883. Much later, the Man-O-War and Balrothery clubs combined to form North County for the 1986 season, while retaining their separate identities in Fingal League cricket. The merger provided a route towards competing at senior level. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Civil parish
- Balrothery
- Within
- Courtlough
- Coordinates
- 53.56164, -6.18416
- Logainm ID
- 137195 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Man of War. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Fingal Industrial Heritage Survey, Phase 1: Desktop Survey, January 2011 · Carrig Conservation and Mary McMahon; Fingal County Council
- Cricket in Fingal: History of Man-O-War, March 2021 · Jim Bennett
- The Man O’ War Inn at Courtlough, as photographed in March 2010 illustration: based on a Man O' War Inn, Courtlough, Co. Dublin by Kieran Campbell. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-04-24. How this page was prepared.