placenamesFarahy
An Fhairche
Two small mills appear in Lewis’s account of the parish economy.
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
- An Fhairche · Irish · main form · validated name
- Farahy · English · main form
Place & story
Waterpower and farming in 1837
Two small oatmeal mills worked from mountain streams in Farahy parish in 1837, according to Samuel Lewis. He described much of the parish as cultivated land, with mountain pasture in its northern part beside the Limerick boundary. The mills therefore formed part of a landscape combining tillage and upland grazing. Lewis did not name their owners or record their output, but his account identifies waterpower and oatmeal processing as local activities before the Famine. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Coordinates
- 52.24949, -8.44993
- Mapped area
- 22.44 km²
- Logainm ID
- 575 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Farahy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Farihy, 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.