Mahon
Machain | |
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Suburb | |
  Mahon | |
| Coordinates: 51°53′21″N 8°23′50″W / 51.88917°N 8.39722°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | Cork |
| Time zone | UTC0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (IST) |
| Area code | 021 |
Mahon (Irish: Machain)[1] is an area to the south-eastern side of Cork, Ireland. Mahon gets its name from Lough Mahon, a wide stretch of the upper section of Cork Harbour. It was once a semi-rural peninsula, but from the late 20th century was subject to residential development, and has a number of housing estates and developments.[2] The area was generally known as the Ring of Mahon, and is the site of Ringmahon House (formerly occupied by James Murphy of Murphy's Brewery and later by Ben Dunne of Dunnes Stores).[3] Mahon is within the Cork South-Central Dáil constituency.
- ^ "Machain / Mahon". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Database. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
- ^ Richard Henchion (2005). East to Mahon : the story of Blackrock, Ballintemple, Ballinlough, Ballinure and Mahon. Cork: Dahadore Publications. ISBN 0954129326.
- ^ "Ringmahon House, Ringmahon Road, Blackrock, Cork City". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 12 December 2018.