placenamesArdfert
Ard Fhearta
The Glandore Gate and Ardfert Parish Room preserve estate patronage beyond the town’s medieval church remains.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Ard Fhearta · Irish · main form
- Ardfert · English · main form
Place & story
A gateway rebuilt in another place
The Gothic gateway known as Glandore Gate was built about 1815 for John Crosbie, Earl of Glandore. The architectural inventory records its relocation and reconstruction in 1880. Its pointed central arch, battlements and attached lodge give an estate entrance the outline of a small fortified building, with curved screen walls extending the composition. [2]
A hall with stepped gables
Ardfert Parish Room was built about 1915 by the local landlord Lindsey Talbot. Red brick walls contrast with limestone details, while stepped gables mark the main block and entrance porch. A name plaque and matching entrance gates identify a purpose-built meeting place, adding an early twentieth-century layer to the townland’s public buildings. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Civil parish
- Ardfert
- Coordinates
- 52.32784, -9.77525
- Mapped area
- 1.54 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1411932 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ardfert. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ardfert Abbey Glandore Gate, NIAH21302002 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Ardfert Parish Room, NIAH21302004 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-04-07. How this page was prepared.