placenamesFanlobbus
Fán Lóbais
An 1837 account describes changing crops around Dunmanway and the farming tools still in use.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Fán Lóbais · Irish · main form · validated name
- Fanlobbus · English · main form
Place & story
From flax to wheat
Land in Fanlobbus had been brought into cultivation for flax when Dunmanway’s linen trade flourished. By 1837 Samuel Lewis described wheat as the parish’s principal crop, grown in quantity to supply nearby flour mills. He also noted that heavy wooden ploughs remained widely used. His account links the earlier expansion of cultivated land to textile production, while recording a later emphasis on grain for milling. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery East (W.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.74696, -9.11269
- Mapped area
- 144.31 km²
- Logainm ID
- 574 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Fanlobbus. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Fanlobbus: 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.