It is referred to as 'Clonmoile' in the Down Survey (Muskerry) map,[1] and 'Clonmolye' with arable and course pasture land in the Down Survey (Parishes of Ahabollog and Aghinagh) map, with the terrier naming the proprietor as an Irish papist, Cormack MacCallaghan Carthy of the 'denomination of Clonmoyle', consisting of three ploughlands and c. 1521 acres considered 'entirely profitable'.

The Ordnance Survey name book (c. 1840) gives the Irish language version of Cluain Maoile to the townland, or 'meadow of the hornless cow'.

Pyne and Molly Davis, and excellent ground, mainly cultivated, with some bog and furze running through it.

O'Donoghue (1986) holds the Irish version to be Cluain Mhaoil, meaning 'bare or bleak watershed', or possibly Cluain Maothaile meaning 'soft or spongy watershed'.

[3] O'Murchú (1991) holds the correct version to be Cluain Mhaol meaning 'the bare meadow'.