Origin
The village's name signifies, according to Sir James Ware, "a wonderful place on an eminence", or as some interpret it, "the hill of miracles." Ardfert has also been considered a corruption of Ard Ert, "the high place of Ert or Erc", so called after the 5th century Irish Bishop Saint Erc, who made the place a bishop's seat.
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In an old cellar hole in a byroad
The origin of all the family there.
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That now not all the houses left in town
Made shift to shelter them without the help
Of here and there a tent in grove and orchard.”
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