Bunmahon

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Bonmahon Village (Irish: Bun Machan) also called Bunmahon Village.

This Waterford Village is a coastal village at the mouth of the River Mahon. Bonmahon/Bunmahon literally means “the end of the Mahon”.

Historically, Bonmahon/Bunmahon was a mining village. Copper was mined here between 1827 and 1877. The population of the village swelled to over two thousand 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- alongside twenty-one 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.

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.