placenamesKilbonane
Cill Mhathnáin
Lewis linked the parish’s quarries with agriculture, building and architectural ornament.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhathnáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilbonane · English · main form
Place & story
Stone from the Aherlow quarries
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Kilbonane identifies extensive limestone quarries at the place he calls Aherlow. Their output supplied agricultural uses, construction and architectural ornament across much of the Bandon valley and neighbouring inland country. Lewis specifically records stone taken for the ornamental work of Cork’s new courthouse. This gives the local quarrying a connection with an identified civic building, though he does not name the quarry operator or specify which decorative features used its stone. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Coordinates
- 51.83154, -8.73772
- Mapped area
- 19.1 km²
- Logainm ID
- 593 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbonane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbonane: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), reproduced in Kilmurry genealogy and history · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.