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==Origin== The village's name signifies, according to Sir [[James Ware (historian)|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 fifth century Irish Bishop [[Saint Erc]], who made the place a bishop's seat. Ardfert was written by the Four Masters as ''Ard-ferta'', the height of the grave.<ref>{{Cite book|title=THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF IRISH NAMES OF PLACES|url=https://archive.org/details/originhistoryofi02joycuoft|last=Joyce|first=P.W. (Patrick Weston)|publisher=London Longmans, Green|year=1910|pages=[https://archive.org/details/originhistoryofi02joycuoft/page/149 149]}}</ref>
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