placenamesVentry
Fionntrá
Lewis recorded the harbour’s administrative connection and a separate coastguard station in 1837.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Fionntrá · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ventry · English · main form
Place & story
Port and coastguard connections
Samuel Lewis described Ventry Harbour as a dependency of the port of Dingle in 1837. A narrow peninsula separated the two harbours. He also recorded a coastguard station at East Coumtra belonging to the Dingle district, showing another administrative connection along this coast. Although Lewis described the harbour as spacious, he noted its exposure to south-easterly gales. These are observations from his nineteenth-century parish account, rather than present-day navigation guidance or a claim that the coastguard station stood in Ventry village. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Corkaguiny
- Coordinates
- 52.12181, -10.37836
- Mapped area
- 18.57 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1129 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ventry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ventry — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.