placenamesAghadown
Achadh Dúin
Lewis describes an underused quay whose remaining traffic served local farmers.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Achadh Dúin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Aghadown · English · main form
Place & story
Cargoes for the fields
A quay and storehouses had been constructed at Newcourt by the time of Samuel Lewis’s 1837 survey. He described them as neglected and reported that only a few sand boats used the harbour, unloading for local farmers. The account records a modest agricultural use for facilities that had attracted little other shipping. [2]
Ploughs, spades and a new road
Lewis observed heavy wooden ploughs still in use in Aghadown and some land worked by spade. Roads crossed the parish, including a new route from Skibbereen to Crookhaven that he expected to benefit the district. That anticipated benefit was his assessment of the new road. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery West (E.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.53501, -9.38586 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 36.75 km²
- Logainm ID
- 495 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aghadown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aughadown or Aghadown: 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.