placenamesMoviddy
Maigh Mhide
Lewis recorded water management and different forms of school support in the Cork parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Maigh Mhide · Irish · main form · validated name
- Moviddy · English · main form
Place & story
Managing the land
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account places Moviddy parish on the River Bride in County Cork. He described extensive irrigation of its meadows alongside drainage of marshy ground for cultivation. Most land was under tillage, while waste ground and bog occupied little of the parish. His account thus records both the deliberate watering of meadowland and the removal of water elsewhere, serving different agricultural purposes. [2]
School support
About eighty children attended three public schools. Lewis associated the parochial schools chiefly with support from the rector, while Mrs. Rye had built a sewing school and maintained it with other women. He also recorded a national school in the chapel yard. The chapel at Clonduff had been built in 1820. The account gives no separate attendance figure for each school or full name for Mrs. Rye. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Coordinates
- 51.84382, -8.81493
- Mapped area
- 25.67 km²
- Logainm ID
- 664 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moviddy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Moviddy, 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.