An Charraig Fhinn

Carrickfin lies in the Annagary electoral division, Templecrone civil parish and Boylagh barony, in the Rosses of north-west County Donegal. Its Irish name, An Charraig Fhinn, is glossed by the Placenames Database of Ireland as 'the white rock'. An 1835 Ordnance Survey namebook form was instead rendered as 'Fionn's Rock', a reading that points to a personal name. The townland's occupiers appea...