placenamesMourneabbey
Mainistir na Móna
Lewis recorded flour milling at Quartertown and placed the parish’s northern townlands within Mallow’s manor jurisdiction.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Mainistir na Móna · Irish · main form · validated name
- Mourneabbey · English · main form
Place & story
Industry and jurisdiction in the north
Samuel Lewis recorded two substantial flour mills at Quartertown in 1837, powered by the River Clydagh. He placed Quartertown and Gortnagrague, in the northern part of Mourneabbey parish, under the jurisdiction of Mallow’s manorial court. That court met every three weeks under the seneschal of C. D. O. Jephson, lord of the manor. The statement concerns those northern townlands, rather than the entire parish. Elsewhere, Lewis noted that rough slate at Carrigduff had formerly been worked, distinguishing this earlier extraction from the flour mills operating when he wrote. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Mourneabbey. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mourne, or Mourne Abbey, also called Ballinamona — 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.