placenamesShelmaliere East
Síol Maoluír Thoir
Lewis recorded seaweed for fields, shore turf and cockle beds around the Raven.
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
- Síol Maoluír Thoir · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Shelmaliere East · English · main form
Place & story
Working the shore
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Saint Margaret’s parish, also called Raven, records seaweed as a commonly used manure and turf obtained from the shore at low water. Behind its coastal sand hills lay an extensive cockle bed. These observations distinguish several uses of the tidal landscape: material for fertilising fields, fuel and shellfish. They describe the parish’s historical resources, without establishing how much was gathered or whether the same practices continue today. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Shelmaliere East. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint Margaret or Raven: 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.