placenamesFennor
Fionnúir
Lewis recorded a Board of First Fruits gift for rebuilding the church and annual support for a school.
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
- Fionnúir · Irish · main form · validated name
- Fennor · English · main form
Place & story
Church rebuilding and school support
Fennor’s church was rebuilt in 1815 with an £800 gift from the Board of First Fruits, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. He distinguished it from the remains of an older church in the parish. Three public schools then taught about 250 children between them. The incumbent contributed £10 a year to the parochial school, which was one of those three schools; the pupil total does not refer to that school alone. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Slievardagh
- Coordinates
- 52.68100, -7.62217
- Mapped area
- 32.06 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2275 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Fennor. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Fennor, Slievardagh, in 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.