placenamesFinvoy
An Fhionnbhoith
Lewis described local building materials alongside the falls that prevented navigation up to the parish.
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 Fhionnbhoith · Irish · main form
- Finvoy · English · main form
Place & story
Materials from rock and riverbank
Basalt quarried in Finvoy supplied building work and road repairs, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. Clay along the Bann supported brickmaking. His account treated coal and ironstone differently: their presence was only supposed, and neither had been worked. Although the Bann bordered the parish, Lewis said boats could not navigate up to it because the falls at Portna obstructed the approach. The riverbank’s useful clay therefore did not imply an open navigation route in his account. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Finvoy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Finvoy: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.