placenamesDonacavey
Saint Lawrence’s Church near Fintona combines local building stone with timber brought from Ballyshannon.
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
- Donacavey · English · main form
Place & story
Building and enlarging the parish church
Donacavey parish’s own history dates the completion of Saint Lawrence’s Church to 1841. Local sandstone supplied its walls, while parishioners brought roof timbers from Ballyshannon. The church stands outside Fintona, in the townland the parish calls Lisnabulreavy. A tower and spire followed in 1872. Renovations in 1924–27 and an extension and sanctuary reorganisation in 1996 added further phases to the building’s history. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Clogher
- Barony
- Omagh East
- Coordinates
- 54.49544, -7.32086 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 93.32 km²
- Logainm ID
- 63153 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Donacavey. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Our History: Saint Lawrence’s Church, Parish of Donacavey · Parish of Donacavey
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2008-01-29. How this page was prepared.