Feakle
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Feakle
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| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Clare |
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Feakle (historically Feakell and Fiakil, from Template:Langx, meaning 'the tooth')[2] is a village in County Clare, Ireland, in the Roman Catholic parish of the same name. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.[2]
Location
"Paroiste na fiacaile" means parish of the tooth. A legend says that the tooth of Mochonna, the patron saint, fell out in this place, where he built his church. Other theories are that the place is named after a church that was roofed with "fiathgail", a rough local grass, or that the name comes from "Fia-Choill", the wood of the deer.[3]
The village is in the Tulla Upper barony, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) northwest of Scarriff on the road to Gort. In 1837 it contained 8,844 inhabitants and covered about 30,000 acres (12,000 ha).[4] An 1845 description said "the surface consists of the loftiest, wildest, and most northerly of the western uplands of the county; and includes the southern declivities of the Slieve-Baghta mountains, and those offshoot ranges and masses which embosom Lough Graney, and stretch toward Lough O’Grady. The highest ground is on the west, and has an altitude of 1,312 feet."[5]
The parish of Feakle is in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. Parish churches are St Joseph's in Kilclaren and St Mary's in Feakle.[6] The village population in 2006 was 122,[7] and 134 at the 2022 census.[1] It neighbours Lough Derg and the towns of Tulla and Scarriff. Feakle is famous for its traditional music festival.
History
St. Mochonna is venerated as the patron saint of Feakle. The ancient ruins of his church were destroyed in the early 19th century.[8]
Under the religious persecution of the Catholic Church in Ireland imposed by the Penal Laws, the Catholics of Feakle would travel in secret to a Mass rock located at a megalithic tomb in the nearby Ballycroum bog.[9]
On 12 December 1974 Irish Republican Army and Sinn Féin leaders met at Smith's Hotel, Feakle, with the leaders of the main Irish Protestant Christian denominations (Church of Ireland, Methodist, and Presbyterian) to discuss ways of resolving the Northern Ireland crisis. The Gardaí (Irish police) broke up the meeting. Although any wanted IRA men had already departed, the churchmen did pass on the list of Republican demands to the British government. Methodist leader Eric Gallagher was in attendance and later became the subject of the book Peacemaker by author Dennis Cooke. [citation needed]
People
- Biddy Early (1798–1874), a herbalist and healer who was accused, under an antiquated law, of witchcraft in 1865. Local folklore says that if you leave a coin at her house you will have good health, but take a coin and you will have bad luck.
- Martin Hayes (b. 1962), fiddler, was born in Feakle.
- Ger Loughnane (b. 1953), former Clare hurler and manager of Galway hurling team.
- Brian Merriman (c.1747–1805), a local bard, fiddler, and hedge schoolmaster, is associated with the area. Although neither born, nor did he die, in Feakle, he chose to be buried here where he had spent most of his life. Feakle is also where he composed the lengthy comic poem Cúirt an Mheán Oíche (The Midnight Court).[10] A monument to Merriman's memory was erected by An Cumman Merriman (the Merriman Society) in the local graveyard.
- Dan Minogue (1893–1983), Australian federal politician
- Johnny Patterson (1840-1889), singer and composer who was born in Kilbarron near Feakle
See also
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Census Interactive Map – Towns: Feakle". Census 2022. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."An Fhiacail / Feakle (see archival records)". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Feakle Historical Background". Clare County Library. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Samuel Lewis (1837). "Feacle". County Clare: A History and Topography. Archived from the original on 15 March 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Feakle". Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland. 1845. Archived from the original on 15 March 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Feakle". Diocese of Killaloe. Archived from the original on 24 May 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Census 2006 for Feakle, p. 140" (PDF). Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Clare Places - Feakle: Historical Background". www.clarelibrary.ie. Archived from the original on 11 February 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Somerville, Christopher (11 June 2011). "Walk of the Week: Ballycroum Loop, East Clare". Irish Independent.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Merriman, Brian (1974). Ó hUaithne, Dáithí (ed.). Cúirt an Mheán Oíche. Preas Dolmen. ISBN 0-85105-002-6.
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