placenamesFiddown
Fiodh Dúin
Lewis recorded contrasting local building stones and separate grants and loans for the glebe-house.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Fiodh Dúin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Fiddown · English · main form
Place & story
Marble near Piltown
Fiddown parish had numerous limestone and sandstone quarries in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description. Near Piltown he singled out a quarry of variegated grey marble capable of taking a high polish. His account also credited the Irish Farming Society with improvements in local agriculture during the preceding seven years, placing quarrying alongside changes in farming. [2]
A gift and a larger loan
Lewis recorded the glebe-house as built with assistance from the Board of First Fruits in 1817: a £100 gift and a £1,500 loan. He put the glebe at 48 acres. The two sums represent different forms of assistance, rather than two outright grants or a stated total construction cost. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kilkenny
- Barony
- Iverk
- Barony
- Knocktopher
- Coordinates
- 52.36774, -7.30220
- Mapped area
- 45.44 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1294 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Fiddown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Fiddown: 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.