Mahoonagh or Castlemahon (Irish: Caisleán Maí Tamhnach)[1] is a village and civil parish in County Limerick, Ireland.

There is a parish hall, a primary National School, a Roman Catholic church, two shops, one pub, one car garage and a plant hire company within the village.

[citation needed] In the Civil Survey of 1654–56 the spelling is Mahownagh, Mahoonagh (or Castlemahon as it is locally known), at that time, the parish was in the Glenquin Division of the barony of Upper Connello.

Nobody Knows how Casey came to be in the Castle with the English, but on Shrove Tuesday morning he rose early, he Climbed to the top of the tower unobserved by the inmates and whistled.

Escott, who held the castle, Vosias Walker, Daniel Jennings the Local minister, and others to the number of forty, were it is alleged, stripped naked by Macgibbon.

It was suspected that they were built similar to local houses at that time and floods from the river and normal weather destroyed the buildings after they were not maintained.

The committee and the officers that were elected include, chairman George L Sheehy, and manager Tom Beary, of Mitchelstown.

[citation needed] In 1920 poultry processing commenced in the creamery and consisted of the gathering of live fowl for both the home market and for export.

Golden Vale in the mid-1980s wound up their business on the site and diverted the Farmers to deliver their Milk to nearby Newcastle West.

A new company was formed in October 1984 when O'Kane Poultry of Ballymena purchased the processing plant from the liquidator of the Co-operative.

Castlemahon foods continued to upgrade it equipment and improved their process over the years until it went into receivership in October 2006 and wound up in November 2006 losing up to 300 jobs.

[citation needed] The main centre for sports within the parish is the Feohanagh-Castlemahon GAA Club, which has a playing field in Coolyroe.

It comprises 12,262 statute acres, being chiefly pasture and meadow, constituting several large and small dairy farms, around the parish.

[citation needed] Until late 2006, with the closure of Castlemahon Foods, poultry farming was another income for the local farmers in the area.

[citation needed] As of 2007/2008, there was an industrial estate under construction in the townland of Ballinvullen (west of the village towards the Cork road (R522) which already has a mill nearby built by Castlemahon Foods near Lacey's Cross.

[needs update] Employers for the parish previously included Castlemahon Foods (known locally as the Creamery) which was located across the river on the west bank from the main village on the road to Lacey's Cross in the townland of Ballinvullen.

[citation needed] Up to 300 processing jobs were lost when the owners of Castlemahon, the O'Kane Group, applied to the High Court to have company wound up.

[3] Several reports on RTÉ News and in national and local newspapers, stated that two Siberian tigers settled down in Castlemahon in November 1990.

[4] This event was mentioned in a debate in the Dáil Éireann on 4 March 1992, but Deputy Michael Noonan misquoted the date of arrival of the tigers.