Na Meacain/Mackan

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Na Meacain

genitive: na Meacan

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Mackan

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Liatroim/Leitrim

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Liatroim/Leitrim

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Cill Tachúrc/Kiltoghert

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54.0019, -8.06506latitude, longitude

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Historical references

		Nóta Nóta eolais
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	Cá	Nóta Nóta eolais
n/a	"Pinkman: Meacan = Wild carrot land. Meacan is used to denote any tap-rooted plant, such as a carrot or a parsnip. Usually it has a qualifying term – meacan bán, a parsnip; meacan buidhe, a carrot. This place, Mackan, according to a local authority quoted by O’Donovan, is so called “from the abundance of wild carrots which it produces.” That was the origin of the name. "	Nóta Nóta eolais
	"Arch. Inventory Rath. On the S-facing slope of a gentle rise (113). "	Nóta Nóta eolais
	Ó Máille, ‘Meacan in áitainmneacha’ Dinnseanchas II;	Nóta Nóta eolais
1622	Mackene	CPR Leathanach: 532a Calendar of Patent Rolls of James I Bliain: 1603–23, Pubref: BÁC, 1966, Teideal iomlán: Irish Patent Rolls of James I: Facsimile of the Irish Record Commission's Calendar prepared prior to 1830
1660c	Mackonns	BSD Leathanach: 55 Books of Survey and Distribution Bliain: 1660c
1835	Macken	TAB (60:16/10) innéacs Leathanach: 89, 179, Nóta: (60:16/10) innéacs Tithe Applotment Books (60:16/10) innéacs
1836	Mackan	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1836	Macan, 'a carrot, or parsnip'	Mc Donough, I.:AL Mc Donough, I., faisnéiseoir in AL
1836	Macken	HCons PR:AL HCons. PR:AL Bliain: 1838
1836	Mackin	S&V:AL Report from the Select Committee on the Survey and Valuation of Ireland (1824) in AL Bliain: 1830-40
1836	Meacain	pl:AL Nóta nó leagan Gaeilge scríofa i bpeann luaidhe in AL/ Note or Irish form written in pencil in AL Bliain: 1838
1836	Meacain, 'abounding in wild carrots' "So called, according to Old Moran, from the abundance of wild carrots it produced." [dúch]	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	Mackan	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	[Mackan] "…it contains an old fort."	Desc. Rem.:AL Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40

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