placenamesLeighmoney
Liafuine
Lewis records river transport and building-stone quarrying around Shippool.
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
- Liafuine · Irish · main form · validated name
- Leighmoney · English · main form
Place & story
Four small quays on the Bandon
Sea-sand was landed in quantity for use as manure at four small quays in Leighmoney, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. He described the Bandon as navigable by small vessels as far as Colliers’ quay, opposite the parish. The parish also supplied freestone: stone from quarries at Shippool was worked into pillars and used in buildings. These activities joined the riverside landing places to farming and construction. Lewis’s account does not give cargo totals or establish how long the individual quays remained in use. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Leighmoney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Leighmoney, 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.