Canovee (Irish: Ceannmhaí) is a rural region, with a village nucleus, in the Lee valley in County Cork, Ireland.

Civil parishes were ecclesiastical units of territory based on Gaelic tuatha,[4] or early Christian and monastic settlements from the 12th century.

It was organised by parish, barony and county and identified proprietors by religion, in preparation for redistribution of forfeited estates to establish a new social and political order in Ireland.

For the Generality of the Soyl it's Cold and Indifferent good for tillage, if Manur'd with Lyme or sea sand, which lyeth remote from it.

Four miles east by south from Macroomp, in the parish of Canaboy, is a pleasant seat, graced with an handsome house, good gardens, large orchards, fish ponds, and a great number of trees planted.

The author goes on to mention that in the Civil Survey of the 1650s, the Longs are given as proprietors of Cannaway Island, and the remains of a large house of theirs was found on the north side of the River Lee.