placenamesCoshma
Cois Máighe
Dromin’s agricultural prosperity did not provide every household with an easy supply of fuel.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cois Máighe · Irish · main form · validated name
- Coshma · English · main form
Place & story
Cultivated land without a local bog
Samuel Lewis described Dromin parish’s land as fertile and well cultivated in 1837, with about half under crops and the rest in rich meadow and pasture used to fatten cattle. Yet he also reported a shortage of fuel, particularly affecting poorer residents, because the parish had neither bog nor waste ground. His account records a local difficulty alongside productive farming; it does not quantify household incomes or identify the fuel people obtained from elsewhere. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Coshma. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Dromin, Limerick: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.