Waterford Placenames

Placename : Fews

Administrative Details:

• Barony : Decies-without-Drum

Description:
The name Fews is unecclesiastical in origin; it is applied to the parish, but to no particular townland. The region was probably portion of the Forest of Decies alluded to in the Martyrology of Aenghus, March 26th. Fews is, by the way, singularly bare of trees at the present day. The people of this parish were noted, a hundred and fifty years ago, for their pretensions, a trait which gave occasion to the sarcastic allusion of a local poet: - “Uaisle Bochta; Daoine Paróiste na bhFíodh.�

Old Irish Typeface

Parish Location Map:

Townlands:
Ashtown, Ballyboy, Coummahon, Cummeen, Furraleigh, Graiguearush, Kealfoun, Kilmacthomas, Kilnagrange, Rathmaiden,

Related Resources

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Online Books and Journals
Full-text monographs, journals, and articles of Waterford Interest include useful resources for Affane:

• The Place-Names of Decies by Patrick Power. (Dublin; Cork University Press, 1952)
• Parish Files [Waterford County Library]
• The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland 1843-44 [Waterford extracts]
• Ordnance Survey Letters [1841] by John O'Donovan
• Irish Tourist Authority Survey [1941-45]

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