Information about Loughfee

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Standard Name:
Loughfee
Irish Form of Name:
Loch Fíodh
Translation:
woody lake
Civil Parish:
Ballynakill in the barony of Ballynahinch
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Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Loughfee
Loch Feó, lake of the wilderness
Loch Fíodh
Lough Fee B. S.
Lough Fee County Map
Comment:
Generally called Loch Fíodh, woody lake
Description:
A large lake that lies N.W. and S.E. is about 2 miles long its greatest breadth is about ½ do.
Situation:
Situated near the N.W. corner of the Ph. S. of the inner end of Little Killery and about ½ a mile S. of Killery Harbour. It is bounded N. Letteretterin, E. by do. S. by Leckannavarna and W. by Lettergesh East.

Townland Information

What is a townland?:
A townland is one of the smallest land divisions in Ireland. They range in size from a few acres to thousands of acres. Many are Gaelic in origin, but some came into existence after the Norman invasion of 1169
Townland:
Loughfee is in Letterettrin townland.

Information From Maps

Original OS maps at the Ordnance Survey of Ireland website.
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Loughfee
Information from the National Monuments Service.
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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service
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