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Fearna
The small townland’s census entry is separate from the better-known town and its medieval monuments.
The name
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
- Fearna · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ferns · English · main form
Place & story
The townland and the town
The 1911 census lists Ferns townland in Kilbride parish, with an area of four acres and nineteen perches. Its house and population cells are blank. The entry belongs to Ferns electoral division and dispensary district, within Scarawalsh barony and Enniscorthy Poor Law Union. The town called Ferns had 505 inhabitants, but the accompanying footnote places that settlement on Castleland, Coolbaun and Ferns Upper townlands. That town population therefore describes a different area from this small Kilbride townland. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Civil parish
- Kilbride
- Coordinates
- 52.58714, -6.47977
- Mapped area
- 0.02 km²
- Logainm ID
- 52485 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ferns. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1911: County Wexford, Table VII, printed page 12 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office, London; printed by The Athlone Printing Works Company Ltd, 1912
- 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.