placenamesMonasteranenagh
Mainistir an Aonaigh
Lewis described productive lowland whose pasture could remain underwater for months.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Mainistir an Aonaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Monasteranenagh · English · main form
Place & story
Farming beside a flooding river
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Manister, also called Monaster-Nenagh, describes the River Commogue crossing the parish. Roughly one-third of its land was under tillage, with meadow and pasture making up the rest. The low ground frequently flooded, sometimes remaining underwater for several winter months. Lewis nevertheless described fertile soil and improved farming, recording the seasonal difficulty alongside the land’s agricultural value. [2]
Fuel and church attendance
Near the parish’s edge Lewis recorded about two hundred acres of bog, mostly exhausted. He also noted that Protestant parishioners attended church at Ballycahane. These details extend the parish’s story beyond the abbey ruins to fuel resources and the practical arrangements of everyday worship. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Pubblebrien
- Barony
- Coshma
- Barony
- Smallcounty
- Coordinates
- 52.51573, -8.61323
- Mapped area
- 31.25 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1581 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Monasteranenagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Manister or Monaster-Nenagh — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.