Re: Feeney name in County Roscommon
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Feeney name in County Roscommon
Yvonne Snyder 6/09/01
Try looking further north in County Sligo, where the name is common; your Feeneys may have moved south to Roscommon relatively recently.
MacFirbis (as translated by O'Donovan) records their homeland as Finned / Easky until they were displaced by settlers.