placenamesAbbeymahon
Mainistir Ó mBána
Lewis connected coastal gathering with farming around Courtmacsherry Bay.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Mainistir Ó mBána · Irish · main form · validated name
- Abbeymahon · English · main form
Place & story
Sand and wrack for the fields
Samuel Lewis described sand and sea wrack from Courtmacsherry Bay as Abbeymahon’s customary manures in 1837. Gathering these shore materials gave seasonal employment to numerous people. He also noted bog supplying fuel within a parish where tillage was improving. The account connects the bay’s shore with work and cultivation inland, rather than presenting the coast solely as a setting for the abbey ruins. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Ibane and Barryroe
- Coordinates
- 51.61416, -8.77400
- Mapped area
- 18.89 km²
- Logainm ID
- 490 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Abbeymahon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Abbeymahon, 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.