placenamesFinnoe
Fionnú
Lewis records the reclamation of roughly sixty acres before his 1837 account.
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
- Fionnú · Irish · main form · validated name
- Finnoe · English · main form
Place & story
A changed patch of landscape
A lake covering about sixty acres in Finnoe parish had been drained roughly ten years before Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. He describes the reclaimed land as productive, within a parish otherwise dominated by pasture and containing substantial bog. His entry also records shell marl at Springfield and limestone used for agriculture and building. The drainage is a specific example of land being brought into use, although Lewis does not name the former lake or identify the person who carried out the work. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.98567, -8.18949
- Mapped area
- 20.53 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2177 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Finnoe. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Finnoe: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.