An Chora Uachtarach

An Chora Uachtarach, meaning 'the upper weir,' is the Irish name for Acton, a plantation village established in County Armagh's Ballymore parish during the seventeenth-century colonisation of Ulster. The townland was previously known as Curryotragh before adopting its English name, which references Iron Acton in Gloucestershire, reflecting the origins of the settler family. Acton was founded b...