Clashmore
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Clashmore
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Clashmore (Irish: Clais Mhór) 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 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
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
Clashmore-Kinsalebeg GAA
.
See also
References
- ^ "Sapmap Area: Settlements Clashmore". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. 2016. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
- ^ "Placenames Database of Ireland". Dublin City University. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
- ^ "I.T.A. Topographical and General Survey: Clashmore" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2016 – via Discover Clashmore.
- ^ "Shop.osi.ie Mapviewer". Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
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