placenamesFeystown
Ruined dwellings, a nineteenth-century church and a former school preserve successive chapters of Feystown’s history.
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
- Feystown · English · main form
Place & story
The older settlement
The Glens of Antrim Historical Society’s field survey identified overgrown wall remains from a former chapel and cluster of houses in Clady townland. This older Feystown clachan had disappeared by the middle of the nineteenth century, although its name remained in local use. The present chapel replaced its predecessor around 1828. [2]
Church and school
Saint Mary’s Church carries a sculpture of the young Saint Patrick by Angela, Countess of Antrim, made in the 1960s and facing towards Slemish. Nearby, Feystown’s school opened in 1910 and closed in 1972. It replaced an earlier school beside the church; that older building subsequently sheltered worshippers’ animals before it was eventually demolished. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Glenarm Lower
- Civil parish
- Tickmacrevan
- Within
- Clady
- Within
- Deer Park Farms
- Coordinates
- 54.92054, -5.94877
- Logainm ID
- 118029 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Feystown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Feystown: Clachan Project · Glens of Antrim Historical Society
- From Altmore Street to the Headless Cross · Glens of Antrim Historical Society
- Saint Mary’s Church, Feystown, as photographed in 2007 illustration: based on a Feystown RC Church at Clady by Kenneth Allen. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-07-01. How this page was prepared.