placenamesKilmocomoge
Cill Mochomóg
Lewis linked farming in the parish with deposits collected along Bantry Bay.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mochomóg · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilmocomoge · English · main form
Place & story
Useful shore deposits and less useful rock
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 parish account described lime-rich deposits from the shores of Bantry Bay as the principal material used to manure local farmland. In places these were mixed with what he called coral sand. Not every nearby limestone occurrence offered the same practical value: at Reendonagan Bay he recorded limestone mixed with grit that could only be partly burned into lime. His observations connect the shore and its rocks with the work of improving agricultural land. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery East (W.D.)
- Barony
- Bantry
- Barony
- Carbery West (W.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.71393, -9.43817
- Mapped area
- 261.82 km²
- Logainm ID
- 621 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmocomoge. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmacomogue: 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.