Béal Easa

Béal Easa derives from the Irish words 'béal' (mouth) and 'easa' (waterfall), referring to the ford at the mouth of a waterfall on the River Moy, a noted salmon river that anchored the settlement's early development. Foxford appears in historical records from 1682, when Robert Downing's survey described it as 'a new plantation of English and Scots, and Ironworks, now called Foxford, but once Be...