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Fahy

An Fhaiche

The Erris townland contains monuments distinct from the estate house at Fahy in Kilfian.

Watercolour and fine ink view of the tall narrow castle remnant and lower roofless wall above the water at Fahy in Ballycroy.
Illustration, the surviving walls of Doona or Fahy Castle at Ballycroy, County Mayo, as photographed in September 2009
Recorded locationFahy54.04170° N · 9.90086° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

faichegreen (ainmfhocal/noun)

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • An Fhaiche · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Fahy · English · main form

Place & story

Two recorded monuments

The National Monuments Service records a tower house at Fahy or Doona Castle and a separate church to its south. Both are mapped within Fahy townland. The records identify the church and castle as ruins on historic Ordnance Survey mapping, but their public entries do not supply a construction date or identify a builder. [2] [3]

Seven occupied houses in 1901

Fahy had forty-six inhabitants in 1901, twenty-seven male and nineteen female, in seven houses, all occupied. Its population had been thirty-eight in 1881 and forty-two in 1891. The return places the townland in Kilcommon parish, Erris barony and Ballycroy North electoral division, within Ballycroy dispensary district and Westport Poor Law Union. Its recorded area was 278 acres, one rood and twenty-seven perches. [4]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Mayo
Barony
Erris
Civil parish
Kilcommon
Coordinates
54.04170, -9.90086
Mapped area
1.13 km²
Logainm ID
36926 ↗

People & family history

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

1901 census

46People recorded
7Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Conway 32
  • Cafferky 7
  • Daly 4
  • Conway M 1
  • Ginty 1
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Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Fahy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Fahy or Doona Castle, Sites and Monuments Record MA034-002001- · National Monuments Service, Archaeological Survey of Ireland
  3. Fahy church, Sites and Monuments Record MA034-003001- · National Monuments Service, Archaeological Survey of Ireland
  4. Census of Ireland 1901: County Mayo, Table VII, printed page 79 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Alexander Thom & Company, Dublin, 1902
  5. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  6. Doona or Fahy Castle, Ballycroy, County Mayo illustration: based on a Doona (or Fahy) Castle by dougf. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

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