placenamesOmey
Iomaí
Lewis distinguished ore already raised from his hopes for further mineral development.
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
- Iomaí · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Omey · English · main form
Place & story
An early mining venture
Samuel Lewis reported in 1837 that two shafts on T. B. Martin’s estate within Omey parish had yielded about 60 tons of copper ore. This was an account of material already extracted, separate from his predictions about the district’s future mineral wealth. He also regarded much mountain and bog land as potentially reclaimable using seaweed and coralline sand. The entry records both a small mining venture and contemporary hopes for developing the coastal parish. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Ballynahinch
- Coordinates
- 53.52052, -10.08483 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 85.9 km²
- Logainm ID
- 992 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Omey. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Omey: 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.