MOURNEABBEY

In 1868, the parish of Mourneabbey contained the following places:

"MOURNEABBEY, (or Ballinamona), a parish in the baronies of Barrette and Fermoy, county Cork, province of Munster, Ireland, 3 miles S. of Mallow, its post town. It is 7 miles long by S broad. The soil is mostly good. The small stream Cladagh effects the drainage. The parish is intersected by the road from Cork to Limerick. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Cloyne, value £427, in the patronage of the crown. It contains a church and a Roman Catholic chapel; the latter is united to that of Granaugh. There are two or three daily schools, and ruins of a preceptory for Knights Templars founded in the time of King John by Alexander de Sancta Helena. This place, under the name of Ballinamona, appears to have once been a corporation, and to have been walled round. It was a possession of the M'Carthys, who were overpowered by the Earl of Ormonde in 1571, and forfeited their estates in 1641.

"BALLINAMONA, a village in the parish of Mourneabbey, baronies of Barretts and Fermoy, in the county of Cork, province of Munster, Ireland, 4 miles to the S. of Mallow."

[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2018