placenamesFinuge
Fionnúig
An 1837 description records the house, castle ruins and river road within the parish.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Fionnúig · Irish · main form
- Finuge · English · main form
Place & story
A riverside demesne
Ballinruddery was an occasional residence of Maurice Fitzgerald, Knight of Kerry, in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Finuge parish. Its house combined thatched and slated roofs, with climbing plants covering the cottage front. A carriage road followed the Feale through the wooded demesne for more than a mile. Beside the dwelling, close to the river, stood the ruins of Ballinruddery Castle. Lewis’s description records a house and designed landscape sharing their riverside setting with an older ruined structure; it does not establish the castle’s construction date or the present survival of these features. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Coordinates
- 52.43151, -9.50139
- Mapped area
- 15.16 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1072 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Finuge. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Finuge, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.