placenamesInver
Inbhear
A discovery in peat and a parliamentary exchange record very different aspects of life along Inver’s Donegal coast.
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
- Inbhear · Irish · main form · validated name
- Inver · English · main form
Place & story
The house found in Drumkellin bog
Lewis’s 1837 survey recorded the discovery of a wooden house in Drumkellin bog in 1833. He described a structure twelve feet square and nine feet high, built with heavy timbers and split oak planks. Sand and gravel lay beneath it, and traces of a timber-supported paved approach were reported nearby. This is a nineteenth-century account of the discovery; its dimensions and construction details do not by themselves establish the building’s age. [2]
Fishermen’s request reaches parliament
On 19 February 1895, Donegal MP J. G. Swift MacNeill raised Inver fishermen’s request for a pier and a deeper river entrance. He referred to an inquiry held in 1884 and asked whether construction could provide work during distress following potato-crop failure. Chief Secretary John Morley replied that the pier commission had investigated Inver but excluded it when allocating limited funds. He distinguished that proposal from a pier already being built at nearby Port by the Congested Districts Board. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Inver. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- InverDonegal,A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland1837 · Samuel Lewis
- FisheryAccommodationatInverCountyDonegal,19February1895 · UK Parliament, Hansard
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.