Baile Uí Bheoláin

Baile Uí Bheoláin, meaning 'townland of the Ó Beoláin family,' was established as Mountshannon in the early 18th century by Alexander Woods, a Limerick merchant who envisioned it as a Protestant settlement for workers in the flax and linen trade. Contrary to Woods' expectations, the village was eventually colonized by Catholic residents, and today a Protestant church in a wooded churchyard stan...