placenamesMonanimy
Móin Ainmne
Lewis recorded different uses of the Blackwater valley and a school supported by a thirty-year legacy.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Móin Ainmne · Irish · main form · validated name
- Monanimy · English · main form
Place & story
River, upland and fuel
Monanimy parish crossed the Blackwater in County Cork and included part of the Nagle Mountains south of the river. Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account describes upland grazing there, while the land north of the river—about a third of the parish—was chiefly cultivated. Bogland supplied fuel both locally and to the market at Mallow, connecting the parish’s peat resources with the nearby town. [2]
A legacy with a defined term
Lewis recorded a school with about 80 children supported by an annual £18 bequest from the late Jos. Nagle of Ballygriffin. The provision was for thirty years beginning in 1814. Two private schools separately had about 90 children between them. The account establishes the stated term and purpose of the legacy, without showing whether the school continued after that support ended. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Monanimy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Monanimy, 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.