placenamesClonfert
Cluain Fearta
Lewis recorded the demolition of an early nineteenth-century clergy residence near Newmarket.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cluain Fearta · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clonfert · English · main form
Place & story
A loan-backed house and a larger burial ground
A glebe-house near Newmarket was erected in 1811 with help from a £1,125 Board of First Fruits loan. By Samuel Lewis’s 1837 survey it had deteriorated and been taken down. The parish retained nine acres of glebe land, with an acre recently added to Clonfert’s old burial ground by permission of the bishop. His account preserves both a lost residence and a change to the parish’s burial provision. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clonfert. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clonfert, Cork: 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.