placenamesAghavallen
Achadh Mhálainn
River transport connected farming, fuel and fishing in the Shannon-side parish before the Great Famine.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Achadh Mhálainn · Irish · main form
- Aghavallen · English · main form
Place & story
A return cargo for the fields
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Aghavallen records limestone brought from Askeaton for agricultural use. Turf boats returning from Limerick carried it, linking the fuel trade with the improvement of farmland. Farmers also used material from the sea as manure. Brown building stone was quarried within the parish. [2]
Trade in the creek and off Carrigue
Lewis reported vessels of thirty tons entering the creek to trade in potatoes and turf. Seasonal work included oyster dredging off Carrigue island and fishing. These details describe the nineteenth-century parish’s river economy, rather than a current shipping service or fishing entitlement. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Coordinates
- 52.54917, -9.49625
- Mapped area
- 92.8 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1047 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aghavallen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aghavallin or Aghavalah: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.