placenamesForth
Fotharta
Forth’s association with Yola survives in nineteenth-century manuscripts and modern heritage interpretation.
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
- Fotharta · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Forth · English · main form
Place & story
A manuscript from Kilrane
The National Library of Ireland holds William O’Neill’s account of the parishes of Forth and Bargy, accompanied by an essay and examples of the local English dialect known as Yola. O’Neill, principal of Tenacre School, sent the manuscript to a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1886. Its combination of parish descriptions, songs and dialect material records a distinctive regional culture. [2]
Collecting and explaining the dialect
Jacob Poole of Growtown collected Yola words and phrases in the early nineteenth century. Wexford County Council later commissioned a heritage project drawing on his glossary and placename evidence. Its announcement proposed an interpretation panel at Lady’s Island in Forth. The project connects the barony’s surviving documentary record with a later effort to explain its linguistic heritage. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Forth. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Topographical and antiquarian account of the parishes in Bargy and Forth, manuscript10,674 · National Library of Ireland; William O’Neill manuscript catalogue
- Yola Language Project · Wexford County Council
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.