placenamesForgney
Forgnaí
University of Galway research follows the house from the King-Harman family into later uses.
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
- Forgnaí · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Forgney · English · main form
Place & story
A house changing hands
Newcastle House stands in Newcastle townland, Forgney parish. The University of Galway’s Landed Estates database records Laurence King-Harman there at Griffith’s Valuation in the 1850s, when the house was valued at £90. Colonel W. H. King-Harman owned it in 1906. The property remained in the family into the twentieth century before being sold to an order of religious sisters. The database also records its later twentieth-century use as a hotel. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Forgney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Newcastle House (Ballymahon), property 6050 · Landed Estates Database, University of Galway
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.