placenamesClonmult
Cluain Molt
Lewis recorded a small settlement on the Tallow–Castlemartyr road in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cluain Molt · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clonmult · English · main form
Place & story
A village within the wider parish
Samuel Lewis described Clonmult village in 1837 as a settlement of about twenty cabins on the road between Tallow and Castlemartyr. Its Catholic chapel belonged to the wider Castlemartyr religious district. He also recorded a private school teaching about twenty children in the parish, without identifying its premises. Beyond the village, his account described mountainous ground. The cabin and pupil figures refer to different things: the size of the settlement and attendance at one school. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Barony
- Kinnatalloon
- Coordinates
- 52.00689, -8.09904
- Mapped area
- 18.66 km²
- Logainm ID
- 549 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clonmult. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clonmult, 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.