Mayfield, historically Ballinamought (from Irish Baile na mBocht, meaning 'town of the poor'),[1][2] is a suburb on the north-side of Cork City, Ireland.

[2] A number of works, including those of etymologist and historian Patrick Weston Joyce, translate Baile na mBocht as "town of the poor [people]".

[2][3] Other sources translate it as "town of the sick",[citation needed] as the area was reputedly the site of a medieval leper colony.

[4] Mayfield is bounded to the north by the Glen River Valley, an aquiferous geological formation produced by a receding glacier during the last ice age.

Habitats, flora and fauna within the area include the small cudweed and the sand martin, a migratory bird species that returns from North Africa each spring to breed in the porous sand cliffs along sections of the river valley north.