Lombardstown

Village in County Cork, Ireland

Village in Munster, Ireland

Lombardstown Baile Lombaird
Village
Railway line to Mallow at Lombardstown
52°07′07″N 08°46′55″W / 52.11861°N 8.78194°W / 52.11861; -8.78194
Country	Ireland
Province	Munster
County	County Cork
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Lombardstown (Irish: Baile Lombaird)^[1] is a village 9 kilometres (6 mi) west of the town of Mallow in County Cork, Ireland.^[2] It takes its name from the Lombard family who came to Ireland from Lombardy in Northern Italy in the Middle Ages and became rich and prominent, with branches of the family in Waterford and Cork. Lombardstown is within the Dáil constituency of Cork North-West.

It has a co-op, a post office and is the site of a Dairygold Agri Business plant.^[3]

Notable people

From 1912 the Irish tenor, John McCormack, spent summers in the area after he purchased a small cottage outside the village. In 1918, McCormack sold this cottage due to his singing commitments in the US.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "Baile Lombaird / Lombardstown". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
^ BBC News: Rural Ireland 'dying' as post offices close. 2 January 2007. Retrieved 1 January 2009.
^ "Contact Us". dairygoldagri.ie. Retrieved 8 April 2021.