placenamesFarnanes
Na Fearnáin
Jeremiah Carroll’s witness statement records how local organising developed around Farnanes during the revolutionary period.
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
- Na Fearnáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Farnanes · English · main form
Place & story
Meetings in a private house
In his 1952 statement, Jeremiah Carroll recalled a Volunteer section being formed in the Farnanes area in October 1915 by Bill Connor. Meetings took place in Connor’s house. By Easter 1916 about thirty men had joined. Carroll remembered a local blacksmith making pikes for the group, whose limited firearms included shotguns collected from nearby owners. [2]
The company and the barracks
Carroll recorded the unit’s reorganisation in 1919 as F Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Cork Brigade, with about seventy members. Its wartime tasks included blocking and trenching roads across the company area. He also recalled Farnanes RIC barracks being partly burned on the night after its evacuation, although he was uncertain of the year. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Farnanes. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Bureau of Military History witness statement WS706, pp. 1, 4 (1952) · Jeremiah Carroll, catalogued as Jeremiah O’Carroll; Military Archives
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