Clashmore Explained

Clashmore
Native Name:Irish: Clais Mhór
Native Name Lang:ga
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Ireland
Pushpin Label Position:top
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Ireland
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Ireland
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Munster
Subdivision Type3:County
Subdivision Name3:County Waterford
Established Date:632
Unit Pref:Metric
Population As Of:2016
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:252
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone1:WET
Utc Offset1:+0
Timezone1 Dst:IST (WEST)
Utc Offset1 Dst:-1
Coordinates:52.0094°N -7.8193°W

Clashmore is a village, townland and civil parish in west County Waterford, Ireland.[2] The village and surrounding district are very low-lying, as the name Irish: Clais Mhór (meaning "the great hollow or trench") implies; elsewhere the land is rather hilly.[3] It is also a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore.

Distillery

It is the site of a distillery built by Lord Hastings the thirteenth Earl of Huntingdon which operated from c. 1835 to 1840, producing 20,000 gallons of whiskey annually. The mill was then used until c. 1897 as a flour mill. The distillery chimney is unique in Ireland as the only one which spans the river which propelled the mill.

Clashmore is now home to several small pubs and a local shop.

Clashmore House

Clashmore House was a mansion built but never completed on the site that is currently occupied by St Mochua's well.[4]

Sport

The local Gaelic Athletic Association club is Clashmore-Kinsalebeg GAA.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sapmap Area: Settlements Clashmore . Central Statistics Office . Census 2016 . 2016 . 24 September 2021 . 14 February 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180214142006/http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=E45722F9-CFD2-4C52-B541-C014A4764638 . live .
  2. Web site: Placenames Database of Ireland. Dublin City University. 17 December 2014.
  3. Web site: I.T.A. Topographical and General Survey: Clashmore . Discover Clashmore . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304231250/http://discoverclashmore.com/topographicalsurveyclashmore.pdf . 4 March 2016 . live.
  4. Web site: Shop.osi.ie Mapviewer . 2015-04-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120829114800/http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,612153,584257,7,8 . 2012-08-29 . dead .