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Bannfoot is a small village in the townland of Derryinver, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It sits where the Upper Bann flows into Lough Neagh. Bannfoot is within the Craigavon Borough Council area.
[edit] History
The surrounding area was originally known as Bun na Banna, and this name has been adopted as the modern Irish for Bannfoot.[1] There was once a fort at the mouth of the Upper Bann known as Bun an Bhealaigh, meaning "end of foot of the road or pass".[2] This fort has been anglicised in past as "Fort Bunvalle".[1]
In 1760 reference is made of the "Bann Foot Ferry" (sic).[1] Charles Brownlow, 1st Baron Lurgan, built the village near the Bannfoot ferry, naming it Charlestown, in about 1830.[3] It is claimed he intentionally erected it equidistant (seven miles) each from Portadown, Lurgan and Stewartstown.[4]
The ferry no longer operates and a bridge has never been constructed across the river, but there have been calls for a bicycle and pedestrian bridge as a means of boosting tourism.[5] Proposals for bridging the river at this point go back as far as the 1830s.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Placenames Database of Ireland (see scanned images)
- ^ Ulster Place Names - Craigavon (Derrytrasna Ward)
- ^ "Craigavon Borough Council, Derrytrasna Ward". Ulster Place-Name Society. http://www.ulsterplacenames.org/PDF%20Files/Craigavon%20%28Derrytrasna%20ward%29%20%28C.%20Dunbar%29.pdf. Retrieved 7 July 2010.
- ^ "The Montiaghs". Craigavon Historical Society. http://www.craigavonhistoricalsociety.org.uk/rev/turkingtonmontiaghs.html. Retrieved 7 July 2010.
- ^ January 13, 2009. "Bridge call". Lurgan Mail. http://www.lurganmail.co.uk/news/local/bridge_call_1_1776474. Retrieved June 09, 2011.
- ^ McCorry, Francis. "The Lough Gullion Drainage Attempt". Craigavon Historical Society. http://www.craigavonhistoricalsociety.org.uk/rev/mccorryloughgullion.html. Retrieved June 09, 2011.
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