An Liagán/Legan

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An Liagán

genitive: an Liagáin

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(Irish)

Legan

(English)

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Glossary

lia, liag

English stone, pillar-stone

Hierarchy

county

An Longfort/Longford

barony

Sruthail/Shrule

civil parish

Cill Ghlas/Kilglass

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

the standing stone
Tá ballán anseo dar le www.archaeology.ie. Féach leis an nóta san Ainmleabhar: '...large rocks in an enclosure...from these stones the place is called...Legan Rocks'.
English

the standing stone
A bullaun stone is listed here on www.archaeology.ie. See also the note in the Namebook: '...large rocks in an enclosure...from these stones the place is called...Legan Rocks'.

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53.622, -7.64422latitude, longitude

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Archival records

Historical references

1612	Lyagan [? Tá tagairt do ‘Laggankippinaghe’ leis anseo, suíomh éiginnte]	Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.1 Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1620	Leggan and Lisseclet	CPR Leathanach: 466a 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
1620	Laggan [? deirfinn ón gcomhthéacs gur bf. eile, caillte anois, atá i gceist]	CPR Leathanach: 466a 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
1621	Lagan	CPR Leathanach: 537b 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
1629	Lagan [tá ‘Lagan’ eile léirithe sa chomharsanacht agus chomh maith le sin tá ‘Lagan Cart. macRory’ timpeall na háite. Níl rian dóibh seo inniu ann]	Cotton Map Cotton Map
1655	Legan	DS Down Survey (Barony Maps - Hiberniae Regnum, 1654, cóipeanna a rinne an tSuirbhéireacht Ordanáis ó na bunchóipeanna i bPáras, 1908) Bliain foilsithe: 1655-7
c.1660	Legan	BSD Leathanach: 116 Books of Survey and Distribution Bliain: 1660c
1667	Legan (Sir John Stephens)	ASE Leathanach: 105 Abstracts of Grants of Lands..under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, A.D.1666-1684 (Appendix to Fifteenth Annual Report from the Commissioners of Public Records of Ireland, 45-280; 1825) Bliain: 1666-84
1813	Legan	Edgeworth A map of the county of Longford, William Edgeworth (1813); 4 leathanach (W. Faden, Londain a d’fhoilsigh, 1814)
1835	Legan	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1835	Legan	Edgeworth Map (AL) Edgeworth Map:AL - Longford & Roscommon
1835	Legan	Jessop, Rev. R.:AL Rev. R Jessop:AL
1835	Legan	Robinson, J.:AL Robinson, J.:AL
1835	Legan	HCER 1826:AL House of Commons Education Report 1826 as AL Bliain: 1835
1835	Laggan	Inq. J I:AL Ionchoisní Shéamais I, foinse in AL / Inquisitions James I, source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830/1840idí
1835	Lyagan	Inq. J I:AL Ionchoisní Shéamais I, foinse in AL / Inquisitions James I, source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830/1840idí
1835	Laggan	Inq. C I:AL Inquisition de chuid aimsir Charles I in AL Bliain: 1830/1840idí
1835	pronounced Laygan	pron.:AL Pronunciation in AL Bliain: 1830-40
1835	liagan, “a standing stone”	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
1835	liagan	pl:AL Nóta nó leagan Gaeilge scríofa i bpeann luaidhe in AL/ Note or Irish form written in pencil in AL Bliain: 1838
1835	it has three Danish forts	Desc. Rem.:AL Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40
1835	Legan Rocks	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
1835	From these stones the place is called	Nóta:AL Nóta: [mionainm] Nóta in AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks.
1835	Liagán	dúch:AL Foirm Ghaeilge (go hiondúil) nó nóta i ndúch, nach léir cé a scríobh
1835	Legan townland	Situation:AL Cuir síos ar shuíomh na háite in Ainmleabhair na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / description of the location's situation in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks.
1835	These are large rocks in an enclosure	Desc. Rem.:AL Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40
1908	Liagain, “a standing stone, a pillar stone”	MacGivney Leathanach: 161 Place names of the County Longford. Correctly spelled in Irish and fully explained in English, with notes and illustrations by Rev. Joseph MacGivney
1999	An Liagán	Cártaí Móra Cártaí Cartlainne de chuid an Bhrainse Logainmeacha
2008	liːgən	Áit. Fianaise áitiúil, ar théip go hiondúil, ar coimeád i gcartlann an Bhrainse Logainmneacha. Bliain: 1952-

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