An Baile Mór

An Baile Mór (Ballymore Eustace) derives from Irish 'baile' (townland) and 'mór' (great), appropriately named for what became a significant medieval settlement. The town's documented history begins with a 1192 reference to its church, though two granite high crosses dating to the 10th or 11th centuries indicate earlier Christian settlement and pre-Norman religious activity in the region, which ...