Cathair na Mart

Cathair na Mart, meaning 'stone fort of the beeves' (beeves being an archaic term for cattle), refers to the Irish name of what is now Westport, County Mayo. The place name is recorded in the Annals of the Four Masters (c. 1583) and attested in the Ordnance Survey Name Books by John O'Donovan, Ireland's foremost toponymic authority. The name derives from a 16th-century O'Malley stronghold that ...