placenamesFarranhavane
Fearann Uí Chiabháin
Farranhavane, also known locally as Farnivane, has a documented church-building history and a surviving nineteenth-century estate house.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Fearann Uí Chiabháin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Farranhavane · English · main form
- Mount Pleasant · English · main form · local name
Place & story
St Martin’s Church
St Martin’s Church at Farnivane was erected in 1821 by the Lordan family, builders and road contractors based at Mossgrove. The parish history cites an estate payment of £15 to James Splaine towards the chapel in the same year. It replaced an earlier Catholic place of worship to the south. Reconstruction and renovation followed in 1882–83, and Bishop William Delaney administered confirmation in the renewed church in 1884. [2]
Making the cemetery
Farnivane’s cemetery opened in 1950, with its first burial the following year. The parish records that the land was obtained for a nominal payment and that volunteers helped lay out the grounds. Father Michael O’Riordan, then curate, designed and promoted the project during the ministry of Father Richard Cronin. The account documents a community undertaking at a time when a new burial ground required both land and substantial practical work. [2]
Farranhavane House in the valuation
The University of Galway’s Landed Estates database identifies Farranhavane House in Templemartin parish. In 1851, John Smith Wood leased it from the representatives of Maskelyne Alcock, and the property was valued at £10. The database records the house as surviving within a farming enterprise. This entry supplies a specific connection between the locality and the Alcock estate, alongside the church’s separate history of construction and communal support. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Kinalmeaky
- Civil parish
- Templemartin
- Coordinates
- 51.77745, -8.78486 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1416968 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Farranhavane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- St Martin’s Church, Farnivane · Murragh and Templemartin Parish
- Farranhavane House, property 3585 · University of Galway, Landed Estates Database
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.