placenamesClonbur
An Fhairche
Clonbur’s small village centre has long combined trading premises, schools and public services with two religious traditions.
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
- An Fhairche · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clonbur · English · main form
- Cloonbur · English · main form
Place & story
A nineteenth-century service centre
Tomás Ó Flatharta’s study for Galway County Heritage Office records a courthouse and dispensary, constabulary barracks, national school and Catholic chapel in the 1855 valuation. These stood among houses, yards and gardens, alongside a separately recorded Church of Ireland building. [2]
Village households in 1901
The same study identifies fifteen premises in Clonbur village in 1901: five dwellings, three shops, four public houses, two schools and a courthouse. Among its residents were teachers, shopkeepers, publicans, farm workers and a police district inspector. The McNally household is particularly associated with education: Bridget was a retired national teacher, while her daughters Mary Anne and Delia also taught. [2]
All Saints’
The former All Saints’ Church, recorded by the architectural inventory as a heritage centre, was built in 1846. Its limestone walls, buttresses and bellcote give the small single-cell building a distinctive outline. The inventory’s 2008 survey documented restoration following a period of dereliction. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clonbur. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clonbur · Tomás Ó Flatharta; Galway County Heritage Office
- All Saints’ Heritage Centre, record 30402704 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- National School, Clonbur, County Galway illustration: based on a National School - Clonbur by John M. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-08-29. How this page was prepared.