placenamesClondavaddog
Cluain Dabhaodóg
An 1837 account describes the navigation light serving the parish’s northern coast.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cluain Dabhaodóg · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clondavaddog · English · main form
Place & story
Different signals for sea and lough
Clondavaddog parish covered much of the Fanad peninsula. Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description records nine lamps at its lighthouse on the western side of Lough Swilly’s entrance. They showed a deep red light towards the open sea and a bright fixed light towards the lough. Lewis put the lantern ninety feet above high water and its clear-weather visibility at fourteen nautical miles. These figures describe the historical installation, rather than the lighthouse’s present equipment or navigation signals. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Coordinates
- 55.20726, -7.67034 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 112.58 km²
- Logainm ID
- 777 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clondavaddog. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clondevadock or Clondevadogue: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-06-05. How this page was prepared.