Inis Meáin/Inishmeane

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Hierarchy

townland, island or archipelago

Inis Meáin

genitive: Inis Meáin

validated name (What is this?)

(Irish)

Inishmeane

(English)

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Glossary

inis, inse

English island; river meadow

Hierarchy

county

Dún na nGall/Donegal

barony

Cill Mhic Réanáin/Kilmacrenan

civil parish

Tulacha Beigile/Tullaghobegly

electoral division

Mín an Chladaigh/Meenaclady

Centrepoint

55.1049, -8.33726latitude, longitude

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Properties

GGaeltacht

POThere is or was once a post office here

Archival records

Historical references

1654	Inishmaine	CS III Leathanach: 114 Civil Survey III. Counties of Donegal, Londonderry and Tyrone. (ed. Simington, 1937) Bliain: 1654
1776	Inshmaon	Mackenzie Maritime Survey of Ireland by Murdoch Mackenzie (A Maritim Survey of Ireland and the West of Great Britain taken by Order of the Right Houourable The Lords Commissioners of Admiralty in two Volumes by Murdoch Mackenzie Volume I. Maritim Survey of Irelan Teideal iomlán: Maritime Survey of Ireland by Murdoch Mackenzie (A Maritim Survey of Ireland and the West of Great Britain taken by Order of the Right Houourable The Lords Commissioners of Admiralty in two Volumes by Murdoch Mackenzie Volume I. Maritim Survey of Ireland), Nóta: Cóip san Oifig Logainmneacha, Pubref: London, 1776, Bliain: 1776
1801	Innishmahan	McCrea DG William Mc Crea, A Map of County Donegal, 1801 Nóta: Cóip san Oifig Logainmneacha, Bliain foilsithe: 1801
1833	Innismahan	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1833	Inis Meádhoin 'middle Island - Donoghy Mac Swyne'	OD:AL O'Donovan (leagan Gaeilge de logainm nó nóta agus é scríofa le dúch; John O’Donovan / Seán Ó Donnabháin a scríobh de ghnáth), ex AL. A note or an Irish form of a placename in the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks, usually written by John O'Donovan. Bliain: 1830-40, Bliain: 1835, Bliain: 1838
1834	Innis Mahan	DL Dréachtléarscáil na Suirbhéireachta Ordanais ('Fair Plan') Bliain foilsithe: 1830-40

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