placenamesBantry
Beanntraí
Kilcarbery Mills used a riverside industrial site for a new product.
Recorded locationBantry52.42244° N · 6.74748° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Beanntraí · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Bantry · English · main form
Place & story
Flour along the Boro
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Saint John’s parish records a former woollen factory converted into Kilcarbery flour mills. About two hundred barrels of flour went each week to Wexford for export. Flat-bottomed barges could navigate the Boro as far as the bridge at the mills, connecting the works with the river system. This Bantry association belongs to County Wexford, distinct from the Cork town and barony of the same name. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Bantry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint John’s, Wexford: 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.