placenamesClady More
Cláidigh Mhór
Clady More’s townland records reveal a dispersed rural population and a surviving example of traditional domestic building.
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
- Cláidigh Mhór · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clady More · English · main form
Place & story
Thatch beneath the iron
A listed house at 19 Cladymore Road stands in Clady More townland. Its house and earliest farmyard buildings appear on the 1834–35 Ordnance Survey map. The official survey records thatch surviving beneath corrugated iron, apparently added in the 1940s. Rubble-stone walls, a projecting porch and a lobby-entry plan distinguish this two-storey dwelling. The listing includes its outbuildings, gates and gate piers. [2]
The townland in 1926
The 1926 census counted 255 people in Clady More townland, compared with 311 in 1911. Of its 82 houses, 75 were occupied. These figures describe the townland as a whole, rather than a separately enumerated village. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Fews Lower
- Civil parish
- Kilclooney
- Coordinates
- 54.25530, -6.57286 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 56233 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clady More. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Historic Building HB15/15/012: 19 Cladymore Road · Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division
- Census of Northern Ireland 1926, County of Armagh, Table 3 · Government of Northern Ireland; original report reproduced by NISRA
- Leonard’s, Clady More illustration: based on a Leonard's, Cladymore by Dean Molyneaux. 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 2021-12-20. How this page was prepared.