placenamesInchmore
Inis Mór
Lewis’s nineteenth-century account places Inchmore in Bunown parish and Kilkenny West barony.
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
- Inis Mór · Irish · main form
- Inchmore · English · main form
Place & story
An island residence and former priory
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 survey records 104 acres of arable land on Inchmore and a residence belonging to R. Sandys. The acreage concerns cultivated land rather than a measurement of the whole island. Lewis also records the former priory’s lease by Queen Elizabeth to Christopher, Lord Delvin. His short account places an estate residence alongside the island’s older religious association, with Inchturk and Nun’s Island nearby. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Westmeath
- Barony
- Kilkenny West
- Civil parish
- Bunown
- Coordinates
- 53.50717, -7.93760
- Mapped area
- 0.59 km²
- Logainm ID
- 50973 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Inchmore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Inchmore, Westmeath: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland,1837 · Samuel Lewis; reproduced by LibraryIreland
- 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 2022-03-02. How this page was prepared.