BROWSE
townland
An Chorr Ghearr
genitive: na Coirre Giorra
(Irish)
Corgar
(English)

Glossary

English round hill, pointed hill, hollow; pointed, conspicuous, odd
gearr, giorra
English short

Centrepoint

54.0594, -7.7655latitude, longitude
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Historical references

Nóta
Nóta
Nóta
P: Mohill, b: Mohill
Nóta
n/a
"Pinkman: Cor-ghar = Short or small round hill. There is a Corgar in Ballinamore Parish, one mile North East of the town… and there is Corgar townland in Mohill Parish, west of the road from Gorvagh Church to Kesh…. Strangely enough on this name in Mohill Parish O’Donovan writes “Cor-gar is the local name. Cor is a pit, or a round hill, and gar is mould, bog stuff.” Though I cannot unearth the word, gar, with this meaning in Dineen, I find that O’Donovan gives it in the supplement to O’Reilly’s dictionary, and O’Donovan uses it again in interpreting another name, Killygar, in this County. There is a narrow belt of bog in this townland but there is, too, a rather small-sized round hill. "
Nóta
1621
Corgar
CPR Leathanach: 525a
1659
Caregrier
Cen. Leathanach: 561
1660c
Corgare
BSD Leathanach: 17
1817
Corgar
Larkin (Li)
1830c
Curgar
TAB Leathanach: (61:16/14) innéacs, 1b
1836
Curgar
BS:AL
1836
Curgar
Stacke, Capt.:AL
1836
Corgor
Larkin (Li)
1836
Coragare
HCSR:AL 
1836
Cor gearr,
'short cur, or hill'
OD:AL
1836
Corgar
OD:AL
1998
Loch na Coirre Giorra
Cártaí Móra Nóta: (Corgar Lake)

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