placenamesCarnmoney
Carn Monaidh
Lewis records trade across the sea and recurring support from inherited capital.
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
- Carn Monaidh · Irish · main form
- Carnmoney · English · main form
Place & story
Limestone shipped from the parish
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Carnmoney account records substantial limestone extraction, with stone shipped to Scotland and elsewhere. The parish lay beside Carrickfergus Bay. Quarrying therefore connected its resources with markets beyond Antrim, alongside the farming and textile manufacture described in the same account. Lewis does not quantify the stone cargoes or identify their destinations within Scotland. [2]
Interest distributed annually
The account also records charitable bequests totalling £260 whose interest was divided annually among poor Presbyterians. The £260 was the inherited capital, rather than the amount paid out each year. Lewis mentions two Presbyterian meeting houses associated with the Synod of Ulster, while leaving the donors, individual payments and administration of the charitable fund unnamed. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Belfast Lower
- Coordinates
- 54.67521, -5.93795 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 37.7 km²
- Logainm ID
- 61276 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Carnmoney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Carnmoney: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.