Bunmahon

Bunmahon

Bunmahon Village (Irish: "Bun Machan", “the end of the Mahon”), also called Bonmahon, is a coastal village in County Waterford, Ireland, at the mouth of the River Mahon.

History

Bunmahon was a mining village. Copper was mined here between 1827 and 1877. The population of the village swelled to over 2000 at that time. A temperance hall was built (converted in 1842 to become St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church). The village was home to a pawn shop, a creamery and a bacon factory, as well as 21 public houses. A history of this period and the mining activity was published recently, entitled 'The Making and Breaking of a Mining Community' by local historian Des Cowman. ISBN No 0-9534538-3-9. One of these workers was Thomas Wheatley, whose son John Wheatley later went on to be Minister for Health for the first Labour Party (UK) government in 1924.

Places of interest

Bunmahon lies at the heart of the Copper Coast European Geopark. This is one of the copper coast's unchanged areas as it has not been touched by developers and boasts numerous beaches and beautiful wild life regularly seen are wild foxes rabbits many different species of birds.

ee also

* List of towns in Ireland

External links

* [http://www.copper-coast.com/copper/web/Display/article/45/1/;jsessionid=08951E3CD4426DDC40C60C510C7AA1BB Copper Coast]


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