PARISH OF TEMPLEMORE. 
Name. —The parish of Templemore, sometimes called Temple Derry, (Ceampull 
tDhoipe) and more anciently (Ooipe) Derry, or Derry Columbkille (Ooipe Choluim 
Cille), derives its first and most usual name— -Templemore— from the Irish Ceampull mop 
or “ great church,”—Ceampull ( templum ) being derived from the Latin, like most other Irish 
words expressive of Christian edifices, offices, rites, and ceremonies. This name was originally 
applied, in a popular sense, to the cathedral, or great church, of Derry, in contradistinction to 
the smaller churches in its immediate vicinity, and, after the cathedral had become the parish 
Church, its popular name of Templemore was in a similar manner transferred to the parish. 
There is every reason, however, to believe that the use of this name is not of very ancient stand¬ 
ing; for it appears from the Irish annals, that the cathedral, or Templemore, was not erected 
until 1164, and it is probable that it was not used as a parish church for some centuries later. 
Its more ancient appellation of Derry would, therefore, still be the more correct one, and it is 
generally so called in ecclesiastical records down to recent times. 
Locality.—A division only of the parish, considered ecclesiastically, is in this county; 
the other, which is in that of Donegal, is subdivided into the dependent perpetual curacies of Muff, 
Burt, and Inch. Of the former division, a portion was included in the very ancient district called 
Moy-Iha (TTlaj Ice), and the whole of it, subsequently, in the territory, or cantred, of Tir-Enda 
(Cip 6noa), of which the ancient chiefs were the Mac Duans (lilac OuBam), and O Lappans, 
(O’Lapain) both of whom were of the Kinel-owen (CineuL Bojjain), or descendants of Owen, 
the son of Niall, monarch of Ireland in the 4th century:—This division, to which alone the 
designation Templemore is here applied, occupies the most westerly part of the county of 
Londonderry, and includes merely the city of that name, with its N. W. Liberties. It is bounded 
by the county of Donegal on every side, except the E., where it is washed by the river Foyle, 
(which separates it from Clondermot), and for a small extent by Lough Foyle. Its extreme 
length is nearly 10 miles, and its extreme breadth about 3^. Its content is 12611a. 2r. 21p., 
including 3a. 3r. 27p. of water. The quantity of ground uncultivated is 2228a. 1r. 32p. It is 
divided into twenty-five townlands. 
SECTION I. 
NATURAL STATE. 
NATURAL FEATURES. 
Hills. —The surface of this parish is beautifully undulating, and presents a succession of 
hills, generally cultivated or under pasture. A wide valley, extending from the river Foyle at Penny- 
burn in a north-westerly direction, separates the hills of the parish into two leading masses, or 
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