placenamesDunmahon
Dún Machan
Lewis located a large mill near Glanworth bridge on the parish’s river edge.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Dún Machan · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dunmahon · English · main form
Place & story
Grain processing near the bridge
A large flour mill stood on the east bank of the Funcheon near Glanworth bridge when Samuel Lewis described Dunmahon in 1837. He praised the reputation of its produce, while giving neither an owner’s name nor a production total. The parish around it was chiefly under tillage. His entry also records the surviving square tower of a castle, though it supplies no construction date. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Coordinates
- 52.18207, -8.34243
- Mapped area
- 9.34 km²
- Logainm ID
- 572 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dunmahon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Downmahon in 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.