placenamesFuerty
Fíorta
Lewis recorded production at Castlecoote and a local story about a trench across a ringfort.
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
- Fíorta · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Fuerty · English · main form
Place & story
Milling beside the Suck
In 1837 Samuel Lewis reported flour mills at Castlecoote in Fuerty parish producing 10,000 bags annually and employing more than forty men. A nursery supplied forest and fruit trees. These details record productive enterprises in the parish, distinct from the country house and its later restoration. Lewis did not specify the weight represented by each flour bag. [2]
The two earls’ trench
Lewis also recorded a tradition about Lisadaghearlagh, a ringfort in the parish. Two competing earls supposedly agreed to divide it by a trench across the enclosure. His account describes a visible division and the story attached to it, without identifying the earls or proving that their dispute created the earthwork. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Roscommon
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Coordinates
- 53.62596, -8.27959
- Mapped area
- 54.73 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2071 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Fuerty. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Fuerty: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.