page_title: Bunmahon
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bunmahon / History
caption_attribution_description: Men at Bonmahon Mines County Waterford early 1900s (believed to be 1906). NLI Ref.: P_WP_1570
context_page_description: Bunmahon, also called Bonmahon, is a coastal village in County Waterford, Ireland, at the mouth of the River Mahon.
context_section_description: Bonmahon was a mining village. Copper was mined here between 1827 and 1877. The population of the village swelled to over 2000 at that time. A temperance hall was built (converted in 1842 to become St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church). The village was home to a pawn shop, a creamery and a bacon factory, as well as 21 public houses. A history of this period and the mining activity was published in 2006, entitled The Making and Breaking of a Mining Community by local historian Des Cowman. One of the mine workers was Thomas Wheatley, whose son John Wheatley later went on to be Minister for Health for the first Labour Party (UK) government in 1924.
caption: Men at Bonmahon Mines in the early 1900s
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