placenamesFohanagh
Fothannach
Lewis associated local agricultural change with Lord Clonbrock and advice from Thomas Bermingham.
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
- Fothannach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Fohanagh · English · main form
Place & story
Land improvement in the 1837 account
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Fohanagh, written as Fohenah or Fohana, records bog reclamation undertaken by Lord Clonbrock at considerable expense, following suggestions from Thomas Bermingham of Caramana. Lewis also noted an oatmeal mill and limestone quarries in the parish, alongside improved agriculture. His account identifies both the landowner financing the reclamation and the person whose advice informed it. It does not give the reclaimed acreage, the amount spent or the methods used. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Clonmacnowen
- Barony
- Kilconnell
- Coordinates
- 53.39073, -8.38860
- Mapped area
- 33.75 km²
- Logainm ID
- 933 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Fohanagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Fohenah or Fohana: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), reproduced by Galway County Heritage Office · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.