Dunmore, County Galway

Market Place on High Street in Dunmore

Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 6.2 "  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 36.1"  W.

Dunmore​

Ireland

Dunmore ( Irish Dún Mór ) is a municipality in County Galway , Ireland , which includes 122 townlands and the towns of Dunmore and Garrafrauns with a total of 1,409 inhabitants (as of Census 2011). The name of the place and its foundation go back to a fortress of the kings of Connacht , which is particularly connected to the name of Toirrdelbach Ó Conchobhair († 1156).

Geographical location

Dunmore is in the far north of County Galway and is immediately adjacent to County Mayo to the northwest and County Roscommon to the northeast. Further neighboring are Liskeevy in the west, Tuam in the south and Boyounagh in the east. The N83, which connects the town with Ballyhaunis and Tuam, runs through the town in a north-south direction . Other highways include the R328, which runs from Ballindine to Mountbellew Bridge , and the R360, which connects Dunmore to Williamstown . Dunmore is located on the Sinking River , which flows into the River Clare . The community area is located in a ground moraine landscape with eskers that reach heights of up to 140 meters and thus rise up to 60 meters above their surroundings.

history

A Neolithic court tomb in the townland of Fleascach Mhór on the slope of Slieve Dart is evidence of early rural settlement in the region. The north of Galway, in particular the municipal area, is rich in raths that date from the early Iron Age , some of which were used until the 17th century. These ring-shaped structures were preferably built on slopes or on hilltops. In his work, J. Neary proves a total of 140 such systems in the municipality. The majority of these raths only have a simple ring-shaped structure consisting of an earth wall and a moat, but there are also representatives with two or three rings. In the townland of Kilnalappa , about four kilometers northeast of the town center, there is Woodbed Rath , a particularly well-preserved complex on a hill with three rings, deep trenches, a stone fortification of the inner field with a diameter of about 30 meters and a suspected basement .

The founding of an early Christian monastery in Dunmore has not been proven, although there are references to it in the literature, which however go back to a confusion with Donaghpatrick by Mervyn Archdall in the Monasticon Hibernicum . The foundation of the place and the name, which translates as "great fortress", go back to one of the less important settlements of the kings of Connacht. It is believed that this fortress was located where Dunmore Castle was later built, which is on the R328 about half a kilometer west of today's center. In 1133, the fortress was captured and burned down by the combined forces of the Kings of Desmond and Thomond , Cormac Mac Carthaig and Conchobar Ua Briain .

Dunmore Castle, built by the de Bermingham family in the mid-13th century

Dunmore fell in 1235 as part of the conquest of Connachts by Richard de Burgh and was given as a fief to Piers de Bermingham († 1254). A moth was then erected in Dunmore , probably on the bottom of the previous fortress. There is also a tradition that dates the establishment of the moth to 1225 and attributes it to Hosty Merrick, who was later evicted by the de Bermingham family. However, the construction of the castle goes back to the de Bermingham family and took place in the middle of the 13th century. A small village developed right by the castle, similar to Athenry , but which was burned down in 1249 by the sons of the King of Connacht.

Nave of the Augustinian monastery founded before 1425

Walter Mor de Bermingham, 9th Baron of Athenry , founded Dunmore Monastery in 1425 for the Augustinian Brothers, probably with Brothers from Banada . When the monastery was to be closed as part of the Reformation in the mid-16th century, Lord Bermingham successfully campaigned for its preservation, arguing that it was founded by his family and that it was very poor and without any significant land ownership, so that the crown could hardly benefit from it. Although the brothers had to flee occasionally, they stayed in Dunmore for a long time until the last brothers moved to Athlone in 1809 . The structural substance had already suffered considerably in the 18th century. Nevertheless, after the departure of the Augustinian Brothers, the choir area of ​​the monastery church was still used as an Anglican parish church.

North of the Sinking River , on Church Street , which leads to Ballyhaunis, there was probably a medieval parish church. Only an older cemetery can be found in its place. To the northeast of it, a small provisional Catholic church was first built in the 19th century, which was then replaced by a larger church in 1842. In 1859 a tower was built by the architect John Sterling Butler. This church was demolished after a new church was built on High Street in 1968.

Culture

Dunmore is known for its church choir founded in 1968 on the occasion of the inauguration of the new church, the Dunmore Church Choir , which has around 50 members and has performed internationally several times. a. 1996 in the twin town Querrien , 2007 in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York and 2011 in Toronto .

literature

• J. Neary: On the History and Antiquities of the Parish of Dunmore . In: Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society . tape VIII , Part II, 1913-1914, pp. 94-129 ( archive.org ).
• Lord Killanin, Michael V. Duignan: The Shell Guide to Ireland . 2nd Edition. Ebury Press, London 1967, pp. 55 .
• Aubrey Gwynn , R. Neville Hadcock: Medieval Religious Houses in Ireland . Longman, London 1970, ISBN 0-582-11229-X .
• Seán Spellissy: The History of Galway. City & County . The Celtic Bookshop, Limerick 1999, ISBN 0-9534683-4-8 , pp. 307-311 .
• Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra, Paul Gosling: Archaeological Inventory of County Galway . Volume II: North Galway . Stationary Office, Dublin 1999, ISBN 0-7076-6179-X .
• Peter Harbison : Guide to the National Monuments in the Republic of Ireland Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1970 ISBN 0-7171-0275-0 p. 91

Web links

Commons : Dunmore, County Galway  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

1. ↑ Filed under Tuam rural area , 195 and 196, Dunmore North and Dunmore South : Table 4: Population of each Province, County, City, urban area, rural area and Electoral Division, 2006 and 2011. (PDF) Retrieved May 25 2019 . 
2. ^ Dún Mór. Retrieved February 28, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Spellissy, p. 307; Lord Killanin et al.
4. ↑ The historical boundary of the civil parish , which serves the geographical division and plays no role for the administration, can be seen on the map of the Ordnance Survey Ireland from the 19th century : Historic 6 Ordnance Survey Ireland . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 13, 2011 ; Retrieved February 19, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Ordnance Survey of Ireland (ed.): Discovery Series 39 . Dublin 1998, ISBN 1-901496-20-1 .
6. ↑ pp. 129-131 in JW Gregory: The Irish Eskers . In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London . tape 210 , 1921, pp. 115-151 . See also Figure 9 on p. 10: FHA Aalen: The Irish rural landscape: synthesis of habitat and history . In: FHA Aalen, Kevin Whelan, Matthew Stout (Eds.): Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape . Cork University Press, Cork 1997, ISBN 1-85918-095-7 , pp. 4-30 .
7. ↑ Alcock et al., P. 2, entry 1024.
8. ↑ Alcock et al., P. 32, introduction.
9. ↑ J. Neary, pp. 110-123.
10. ↑ Alcock et al., P. 32; Neary, p. 110.
11. ↑ Alcock et al., P. 121, entry 1909; Neary, illustration of the profile between p. 112 and 113, description on p. 118, no.35.
12. ^ Gwynn, p. 380, entry on Donaghpatrick, Co. Galway.
13. ↑ Spellissy, p. 307.
14. ↑ Goddard Henry Orpen: Ireland under the Normans 1169-1333 . tape III . Four Courts Press, Dublin 2005, ISBN 1-85182-715-3 , pp. 211 .
15. ↑ Spellissy, pp. 307-308.
16. ↑ Spellissy, p. 308.
17. ↑ Spellissy, p. 309, estimates the foundation at 1423; Gwynn, p. 299; P. 242 in: Francis X. Martin: Irish Augustinian Reform Movement in the Fifteenth Century . In: JA Watt, JB Morrall, FX Martin (Eds.): Medieval Studies: Presented to Aubrey Gwynn, SJ Colm O Lochlainn, Dublin 1961, pp. 230-264 .
18. ^ Gwynn, p. 299.
19. ↑ Spellissy, p. 310.
20. ↑ Alcock et al., P. 288, entry 3280.
21. ↑ to be seen: 6 "Ordnance Survey Map. (Not available online.) Archived from the original on 13 February 2011 ; accessed 19 February 2012 . Information: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested Please review original. and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
22. ↑ CO. GALWAY, DUNMORE, CHURCH (RC). Retrieved February 19, 2012 . 
23. ↑ The year 1968 is mentioned in the presentation of the church choir on this page: L'Arche Benefit Concert by the Dunmore Church Choir. Retrieved February 20, 2012 . 
24. ^ L'Arche Benefit Concert by the Dunmore Church Choir. Retrieved February 20, 2012 . Dunmore Church Choir. Retrieved February 20, 2012 .