placenamesArdfield
Ard Ó bhFicheallaigh
Lewis recorded a temporary place of worship at Dunny Cove while the parish church lay in ruins.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ard Ó bhFicheallaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ardfield · English · main form
Place & story
A house fitted for services
Ardfield’s parish church was ruined in 1837, but Protestant services continued in a house fitted for worship at Dunny Cove. Samuel Lewis’s account distinguishes that adapted meeting place from a functioning church building. The parish retained eleven acres of glebe land, although it had no glebe-house. His description records how worship continued locally despite the loss of the older church and the absence of a dedicated clergy residence. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Ibane and Barryroe
- Coordinates
- 51.56392, -8.90596
- Mapped area
- 10.93 km²
- Logainm ID
- 500 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ardfield. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ardfield — 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.