placenamesMontiaghs and Islands
Na Móinteacha
Hazel Turkington described a manually worked crossing at the edge of the district.
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
- Na Móinteacha · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Montiaghs and Islands · English · main form
Place & story
Across the river by rope
Writing in the Craigavon Historical Society’s review in 1974, Hazel Turkington described Bannfoot’s ferry as a wooden, rectangular craft crossing the Bann broadside. A rope connected the two banks, and manual labour supplied its movement rather than an engine. It made crossings as travellers required them. Her account records a working river connection at Bannfoot, where the village ended at the water. It is a dated description of the ferry’s operation, rather than evidence of a present-day crossing service. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Oneilland East
- Coordinates
- 54.49680, -6.48213 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 2739 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Montiaghs and Islands. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- The Montiaghs, Review, volume 2, number 3 (1974) · Hazel Turkington; Craigavon Historical Society
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-12-20. How this page was prepared.