BROWSE
feature
Gréin
genitive: Ghréine
non-validated name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Grian Airbh
genitive: Ghrian Airbh
historical name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Graine
(English)

Centrepoint

52.697, -7.53254latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1633c
go Gréin Airbh
"ó Chnámhchoill ag Tiobraid Árann go Gréin Airbh soir, .i. Cros Ghréine."
FFÉ Leathanach: 304
1633c
Cros Ghréine
"ó Chnámhchoill ag Tiobraid Árann go Gréin Airbh soir, .i. Cros Ghréine."
FFÉ Leathanach: 304
1705c
Greine .c. Chille Cainne
LN G192 Leathanach: 4
1818
Cross Grain
Preston and Purdon marriage articles; var. lec. Greun
CGn. Leathanach: 763.502.518237
1842
Grean Hill
bf Ballynascarry (Gore)
SO 6" Leathanach: E1, 12
1856
i nGréin Airbh
s.a. 891; "Ar nEoghanachta la hOsraigibh i nGréin Airbh, .i. la mac Cearbhaill, et la Laighnibh." n. (k)--"Now Greane, in the barony of Crannagh, and county of Kilkenny, and on the borders of the county of Tipperary.--See Circuit of Muircheartach Mac Neill, p.39, note 87."
ARÉ Leathanach: i, 548
1903
Graine Hill
bf Ballynascarry (Gore)
SO 6" Leathanach: E2, 12
1903
Graine School
bff Ballynascarry (Gore), Glenreagh
SO 6" Leathanach: E2, 12
1905
Grian-Airbh [now Grane Hill]
(as leagan Laidine de FFÉ) "...et a Grenarbhia ad Montem Margium Kilkenniensi..."; aistrithe ag Carrigan: "...and between Grian-Airbh [now Grane Hill, parish of Urlingford] and Sliabh-Mairge..."
Carrigan Leathanach: i, 2
1905
Graeng
"By the local Irish speakers Grane is always pronounced Graeng, or rather Girraeng, and the chapel of Grane, Shaypeeoll Ghraeng."
Carrigan Leathanach: ii, 374
1910
grian airbh
"ár n-Eoganachta la h-Osraigib i nGréin Airb", Mi.; al Cros Gréine; Greane Hill, b. Cranagh c. Kilk., on border of dd, Ossory and Cashel ...
Onom. Goed.
1995
Graine Hill
158m airde
SO 1:50,000 Leathanach: 60

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