placenamesFermoy
Mainistir Fhear Maí
Lewis’s parish account describes horticultural employment and agricultural competitions in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Mainistir Fhear Maí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Fermoy · English · main form
Place & story
Plants for other towns
About a mile outside Fermoy town, P. Baylor’s nursery grounds employed around fifty people, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. Their produce went to Cork, Limerick and other principal towns. The surrounding parish also had an agricultural society established by John Anderson. Its October meetings distributed premiums and included a ploughing match. Lewis described improved farming on generally good land, with limestone north of the Blackwater and brown stone to the south. These details extend his account beyond the garrison and town streets to the parish’s cultivated land and horticultural trade. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Coordinates
- 52.14017, -8.28355
- Mapped area
- 13.51 km²
- Logainm ID
- 576 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Fermoy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Fermoy, 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.