placenamesTirmacoy
Tír Mhic Eochaidh
A nineteenth-century boundary survey preserves a specific account of how Tirmacoy’s mapped divisions came to follow the land occupied by tenants.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tír Mhic Eochaidh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tirmacoy · English · main form
Place & story
When old fences disappeared
Richard Griffith’s boundary report includes Tirmacoy in a group of townlands where old boundary fences had generally been removed. It lists divisions involving Ned, Barnakilly and Carnamuff, among others. The report explains that replacement lines, marked in blue on the accompanying plans, had already been recognised for several years. They followed the company’s estate maps and the boundaries according to which tenants occupied their holdings. [2]
Recognition by the Privy Council
The report received the county grand jury’s approval at the Summer Assizes of 1855. A Privy Council order dated 22 April 1856 adopted the boundaries described in the report for public purposes, generally from 1 May that year, with particular transitional provisions. The document shows the official map being brought into agreement with divisions already accepted on the ground. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Derry
- Barony
- Tirkeeran
- Civil parish
- Faughanvale
- Within
- Tirmacoy
- Coordinates
- 55.03277, -7.06154 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413344 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tirmacoy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Boundary Survey of Ireland,County Londonderry: Privy Council order22April1856,report pages3 and9,concluding orderpage34 · Richard Griffith,Boundary Surveyor; Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council of Ireland,1856
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2011-12-06. How this page was prepared.