placenamesChurchtown
Baile an Teampaill
The Purcells’ residence and a court for small debts connect Churchtown parish with its estate administration.
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 an Teampaill · Irish · main form · validated name
- Churchtown · English · main form
Place & story
Burton Park’s changing house
The University of Galway's Landed Estates account records the destruction of the Percevals' original Burton Park house during the Jacobite War of 1689–91. A late Georgian replacement was built for an Earl of Egmont and subsequently remodelled in the late nineteenth century. The record leaves uncertainty over which earl commissioned the replacement. It was leased to the Purcells during the nineteenth century. [2]
Matthew Purcell and his family
The Reverend Mathew Purcell was rector of Churchtown and lived at Burton Park. In 1800 he married Elizabeth Leader of Mount Leader; they had a son and eight daughters. Their son John occupied Burton Park in the early 1850s, when the house was valued at £34. At Griffith's Valuation his landholding included property in Churchtown leased from Sir Edward Tierney and land in Clonfert leased from the Earl of Cork. [3] [2]
The manor’s court
Samuel Lewis described a court for the manor of Burton meeting every three weeks in 1837. Its jurisdiction covered several parishes, with powers to recover debts up to forty shillings in the former Irish currency. The manor therefore reached beyond Churchtown's civil boundary. Lewis also recorded the Earl of Egmont as the owner of most of the parish, connecting local landownership with this wider administrative framework. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Coordinates
- 52.26180, -8.77878
- Mapped area
- 32.54 km²
- Logainm ID
- 542 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Churchtown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Burton Park, property2870 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
- Purcell (Burton Park), estate2662 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
- Churchtown orBruhenny, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland1837 · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.