placenamesClashmore
Clais Mhór
Lewis records a navigable inlet approaching the town and postal links along the coastal coach road.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Clais Mhór · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clashmore · English · main form
Place & story
Water and road connections
In 1837 Samuel Lewis described a navigable inlet from the Blackwater reaching to within half a mile of Clashmore. It received the Greague rivulet and could carry lighters of twenty tons’ burden. The town also stood on the Waterford–Youghal–Cork mail-coach road, with sub-post-office links to those places recently established. His account places small-scale water transport beside a road and postal connection, without identifying the exact landing place or the number of vessels using it. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Decies-within-Drum
- Coordinates
- 52.00578, -7.82238
- Mapped area
- 33.25 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2372 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clashmore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clashmore: 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.