placenamesAnnaghmore
Eanach Mór
This Annaghmore lies in Cloone parish in County Leitrim; its documented history emerges through land ownership, household totals and the postal network.
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
- Eanach Mór · Irish · main form · validated name
- Annaghmore · English · main form
Place & story
Robert Lloyd’s estate
The University of Galway’s Landed Estates database identifies Annaghmore in Mohill barony as the principal location of Robert Lloyd’s Leitrim property during the 1870s. Lloyd, whose address was at Twickenham in London, held more than eight hundred acres in the county. Part of the estate was offered for sale in the Landed Estates’ Court in January 1877. The record connects local landholding with an owner based overseas and the nineteenth-century court system used to sell estates. [2]
A small rural population
The published 1911 census return lists Annaghmore townland within Cattan electoral division, identifying its parish as Cloone and barony as Mohill. It records seventy-five inhabitants, thirty-five male and forty female. This is a townland total, covering the rural area rather than a separately measured village centre. Its inclusion among the neighbouring townlands places Annaghmore within the dispersed settlement pattern of southern Leitrim and provides a firmer scale for the community than broad parish population figures. [3]
The postal network
The Post Office Guide for April 1900 lists Annaghmore through Dromod in County Leitrim, distinguishing it from the Annaghmore served through Portadown. More than a century later, a parliamentary reply of January 2006 named Annaghmore, Leitrim, among postal agency closures during 2003–05. These records document a local service across widely separated dates, although they do not establish continuous operation throughout the intervening century. [4] [5]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Leitrim
- Barony
- Mohill
- Civil parish
- Cloone
- Within
- Annaghmore
- Coordinates
- 53.89518, -7.78702 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413904 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Annaghmore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lloyd (Croghan and Leitrim), estate603 · University of Galway, Landed Estates Database
- Census of Ireland1911: County Leitrim, TableVII page37 · Census of Ireland / Central Statistics Office
- Post Office Guide176, 1April1900: Annaghmore entry · General Post Office, digitised by Great Britain Philatelic Society
- Post Office Network, parliamentary question123,25January2006 · Houses of the Oireachtas
- Annaghmore portal tomb, County Leitrim illustration: based on a Annaghmore, Co. Leitrim - Megalithic portal tomb by Mike Searle. 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 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.