BROWSE
townland
Cluain Meoin Íochtarach
genitive: Chluain Meoin Íochtarach
non-validated name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Cloonmeone Lower
(English)

Glossary

cluain, cluaine
English meadow, pasture

Explanatory note

  • Gaeilge

    middle pasture
    < meadhón, meadhónach?

  • English

    middle pasture
    < meadhón, meadhónach?

Centrepoint

54.169, -8.10319latitude, longitude
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Historical references

Nóta
Nóta
n/a
"Pinkman: Cluain-meadhón = Middle pasturage. The word meadhón, is often applied to a place lying between the summit and the base of a hill. "
Nóta
1660c
the two Clonemeonaghes
BSD Leathanach: 69
1668
2xClonmeonagh[s]
ASE Leathanach: 177:1
1817
Clonone
Larkin
1834?
Cloonmoin Up, Lr
TAB Leathanach: Innéacs, 19 (60:16/8)
1836
Cloonmoone Lower
BS:AL
1836
Cloonmoon Lower
Buck, H.:AL
1836
Cloonmon
Peace, Clerk of:AL

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