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Feenagh

Fíonach

The Limerick return separates rural households from a village extending across Feenagh and Gortmore.

Recorded locationFeenagh52.38301° N · 8.86587° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

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

  • Fíonach · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Feenagh · English · main form

Place & story

Fourteen occupied rural houses

The rural return for Feenagh recorded sixty-five inhabitants in 1911, thirty-three male and thirty-two female. Fourteen houses were occupied and one was empty. Its population had been sixty-three in both 1891 and 1901. The table places the townland in Kilmeedy parish, Upper Connello barony and Feenagh electoral division and dispensary district, within Newcastle Poor Law Union. Its recorded area was 456 acres, three roods and nine perches. [2]

The village on two townlands

Feenagh town was counted separately, with eighty-two inhabitants in 1911, thirty-four male and forty-eight female, in nineteen occupied houses and three empty houses. The census states that the town stood on Feenagh and Gortmore townlands. Its estimated twelve acres were included in those townlands’ areas and valuations. The town total therefore cannot be assigned to Feenagh townland alone. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Limerick
Civil parish
Kilmeedy
Coordinates
52.38301, -8.86587
Mapped area
1.85 km²
Logainm ID
31772 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Feenagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Limerick, Table VII, printed page 45 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Company, Dublin, 1912
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.