Fán/Fawn

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Fán

genitive: Fháin

(Irish)

Fawn

(English)

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Liatroim/Leitrim

barony

Liatroim/Leitrim

civil parish

Cill Tachúrc/Kiltoghert

electoral division

An Gabhal/Gowel

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53.9845, -8.04963latitude, longitude

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Historical references

		Nóta Nóta eolais
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	P: Drumlease, b: Drumahaire	Nóta Nóta eolais
n/a	"Pinkman: Fán = A slope, an incline. …. Tubbereendovey bridge and well are on its western border. "	Nóta Nóta eolais
	"Arch. Inventory Holy well. ‘Toberreendoney Well.’ At the edge of a stream in an undulating landscape. A natural spring rising from the rock was a place of pilgrimage until the 1850s, when a pattern was held on Garland Sunday, the last Sunday in July, to celebrate Lughnasa (MacNeill 1962, 606). There is local knowledge of the well being venerated up to the 1940s (190). Rath. On a N-facing slope (90). Rath. Towards the top of a S-facing slope (90). Rath. In an undulating landscape with rock outcrop (90). "	Nóta Nóta eolais
<s>1629<s>	<s>Fane<s>	Inq. Leathanach: 165 Ionchoisní ar chearta sheilbhe talaimh nó ar chiontacht (16ú-18ú haois) -- leabhair agus LSS. Foilsíodh mar leabhair ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) (=Inq. Lag.) agus Chúige Uladh (1829) (=Inq. Ult.) (Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hibe Teideal iomlán: Ionchoisní ar chearta sheilbhe talaimh nó ar chiontacht (16ú-18ú haois) atá iontu -- leabhair agus LSS. Foilsíodh mar leabhair ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) (=Inq. Lag.) agus Chúige Uladh (1829) (=Inq. Ult.) (Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum Repertorium I. II). Ní mhaireann na bunscríbhinní as a ndearnadh na cóipeanna seo.
1660c	Ffane	BSD Leathanach: 55 Books of Survey and Distribution Bliain: 1660c
1835	Fawn	TAB (60:16/10) innéacs Leathanach: 45, 177, Nóta: (60:16/10) innéacs Tithe Applotment Books (60:16/10) innéacs
1836	Fawn	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1836	Fawn	HCons PR:AL HCons. PR:AL Bliain: 1838
1836	Faidh 'fawn, or deer'	Quinn, E.:AL Finné in AL
1836	Fán, 'a slope, or declivity,' 'clivos et dunos,' 'Adamman'	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
1836	Fawn "See Fawny in Derry." [Nóta OD]	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
1836	[Fawn] "…a small fort on the eastern mereing…"	Desc. Rem.:AL Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40

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