placenamesFossa
An Fosadh
The Kerry townland has a small census return within a wider community known for education and sport.
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
- An Fosadh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Fossa · English · main form
Place & story
A school’s surviving books
Catherine Costello’s history for Fossa National School dates its foundation to 1840. Its surviving boys’ register begins with John Hurley of Fossa on 5 July 1865; the earliest female register is lost. The school’s daily report books record a new building opening on 25 September 1934. The older books explicitly locate the school in Fossa townland and Aghadoe parish. [2]
An All-Ireland club title
The wider Fossa community’s football club won the All-Ireland junior club championship at Croke Park on 15 January 2023. Paul Keane’s contemporary GAA report records a 0–19 to 1–13 victory over Stewartstown Harps. David Clifford scored eleven points and Paudie Clifford two. [3]
The 1911 return
Fossa had eighteen inhabitants in 1911, ten male and eight female, in three occupied houses and two empty houses. The census places it in Aghadoe parish, Magunihy barony and Killarney Rural electoral division, within Killarney No. 1 dispensary district and Killarney Poor Law Union. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Fossa. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- School History: surviving registers and daily report books · Catherine Costello, Fossa National School
- David Clifford inspires Fossa to All-Ireland glory, 15 January 2023 · Paul Keane at Croke Park, GAA
- Census of Ireland 1911: County Kerry, Table VII, printed page 33 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Company, Dublin, 1912
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2018-03-09. How this page was prepared.