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Mahon is an area to the eastern side of Metropolitan Cork, Ireland with a population of 13,006. Mahon is located in a central position in the greater Cork area with the South Ring Road running through the area, entering at the Jack Lynch Tunnel which runs under the River Lee and giving easy access to Cork Airport as well as Cork City centre. The area is mainly residential with housing estates packed throughout the area. It is now home to the Mahon Point Shopping Centre which is Cork's biggest shopping centre & Retail Park, following major re-development of the N25 road extended to Cork Airport via the new Jack Lynch. The industrial area has major employers such as the Central Statistics Office, Project Management, Webprint and RCI deciding to locate there. There are three schools in the area, Gaelscoil Mhachan, Nagle Community College and Scoil na Croise Naofa.Mahon is the birthplace of Wayne Sherlock Blackrock H&F Club and Cork GAA, his honours include: 3 All-Ireland Titles, 5 Munster Titles and an All Star award. Mahon gets its name from Lough Mahon, a wide stretch of the upper section of Cork Harbour. Mahon has two sports facilities one that has pitches for football and rugby. There is also a football team they are Ringmahon Rangers. There is a credit union near supervalue. There are 2 pubs in Mahon there is the Redcove and the Lakelands. There is also a mobile Library on Tuesdays at Avenue de Rennes in Mahon also there is mobile library service at the Pier Head, Blackrock, on Thursdays. There was a scene in the movie Strength and Honour were the Mahon graveyard was used to do a funeral scene. Some of the local traveller community took part in this film as people in the background. At the moment there is construction going on next to the Mahonpoint Shopping Centre there will be offices going there it will be finished in the summer of 2012. There is a petrol station called topaz it has a car wash and dog wash it has air for car tyres and a hover to hover out the car. The petrol station has a deli in it too were you can get delicious hot food e.g breakfast rolls sausage rolls etc. There is a church in Mahon were most of the local people go for communions christings wedding etc the priest who is involved with the church lives on the church ground just a few meters from the church doors. There is a Mahon Community Centre were a youth club indoor soccer tennis and kickboxing  is held  there is also a little canteen  there were people can sit and relax and have a cup of tea or coffee and cake. There is a Chipper and Chinese in Mahon next to the community hall there is a dentist it has been open for 5 years there is also a bookies and a play school. Next to the primary school there is a play park where some of the local kids play. The line is going through Mahon it has a bridge which the locals call the black bridge some people go there to fish back in the 60s some of the kids used to swim in the water but throughout the years it became polluted and many people have drowned there it is known to people because a lot of people go down the line to commit suicide. Near Mahonpoint there is a R.S.C.P.A which takes in unwanted our homeless pets they are a community charity and take unwanted pets off the streets and try to find them loving homes.