placenamesBallymoney
Baile Uí Mhoinigh
Lewis links access to Clonakilty with the cultivation of poorer land.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Uí Mhoinigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballymoney · English · main form
Place & story
Transport and cultivation
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Ballymoney account credits a new road through the parish towards Clonakilty with improving access to abundant coastal manure. He connects that access with the cultivation of poorer land. The parish was crossed by the Bandon River, and about two-thirds of its land was cultivated; mountain and bog accounted for most of the remainder. Local bogs also supplied turf and bog wood to neighbouring districts to the south, giving the parish another practical connection with its surroundings. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery East (E.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.71690, -8.98815
- Mapped area
- 29.4 km²
- Logainm ID
- 516 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballymoney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballymoney, Cork: 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.