placenamesNoughaval
Nuachabháil
Excavation adds evidence of domestic life to the better-known church settlement.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Nuachabháil · Irish · main form
- Noughaval · English · main form
Place & story
A later settlement
Beyond Noughaval’s graveyard wall lie the remains of small houses and other buildings. Bernadette O’Halloran’s account records a 1990 excavation of one house by a team led by Sinead Ni Ghablain of the University of California, Los Angeles. She places the houses’ occupation broadly between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Noughaval. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Medieval Church and Settlement of Noughaval,26 June2021 · Bernadette O’Halloran / County Clare Heritage Office
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-12-21. How this page was prepared.