placenamesClonfeacle
Cluain Fiacal
Lewis recorded a river find in 1826 and its subsequent display in a private garden.
Recorded locationClonfeacle54.44981° N · 6.77581° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded location · Logainm.ie
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
- Cluain Fiacal · Irish · main form
- Clonfeacle · English · main form
Place & story
A boat hollowed from one tree
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of the wider Clonfeacle parish, which extended across Tyrone and Armagh, records a canoe found in the river bed at Blackwatertown in 1826. Hollowed from an oak tree, it was kept in C. Magee’s garden when Lewis wrote. He described it as well preserved. The entry dates the discovery and records the boat’s custody, while leaving its period of construction unspecified. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Middle
- Coordinates
- 54.44981, -6.77581 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 63159 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clonfeacle. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clonfeacle: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2020-09-08. How this page was prepared.