An Caol/Keel

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Hierarchy

townland

An Caol

genitive: an Chaoil

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(Irish)

Keel

(English)

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Glossary

caol

English narrow; a narrow; marshy stream

Hierarchy

county

An Longfort/Longford

barony

Maigh Dumha/Moydow

civil parish

Cill Ghlas/Kilglass

electoral division

Cill Ghlas/Kilglass

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

the marshy stream, marsh?
Tá bríonna éagsúla leis an ainmfhocal caol i logainmneacha; cf. www.dil.ie s.v. cáel II (e): 'a stream flowing through a marsh'. Tá talamh fliuch agus sruthán i ndeisceart an bf seo.
Cf. bf Cluain Caoil, par. Chill na Sí
English

the marshy stream, marsh?
The noun caol has several meanings in placenames; cf. www.dil.ie s.v. cáel II (e): 'a stream flowing through a marsh'. There is wet ground and a stream in the south of this townland.
Cf. bf Cluain Caoil, par. Chill na Sí

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53.6427, -7.72731latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1612	Keele?	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
1655	Keily	DS Down Survey (Barony Maps - Hiberniae Regnum, 1654, cóipeanna a rinne an tSuirbhéireacht Ordanáis ó na bunchóipeanna i bPáras, 1908) Bliain foilsithe: 1655-7
1659	Keele	Cen. Leathanach: 460 A census of Ireland, circa 1659: with supplementary material from the poll money ordinances (1660-1661), eag. S. Pender (1939) Bliain foilsithe: 1939, Údar: S. Pender, Áit foilsithe: Dublin
1660	Keyley	BSD Leathanach: 139 Books of Survey and Distribution Bliain: 1660c
1668	Keele alias Keyley	ASE Leathanach: 165 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
1671	Keele	ASE Leathanach: 228 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
1685	Keel	Hib. Del. Hiberniæ Delineatio, William Petty Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Foilsitheoir: Irish University Press (1969)
1813	Keel	Edgeworth A map of the county of Longford, William Edgeworth (1813); 4 leathanach (W. Faden, Londain a d’fhoilsigh, 1814)
1835	Keyley	DS:AL Imleabhar: C108, Leathanach: 28 Down Survey (1656-1658), foinse in Ainmleabhar na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks
1835	Keele	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1835	Keel	Edgeworth Map:AL A map of the county of Longford, William Edgeworth (1813) ex AL
1835	Keele	Rev. J Jessop:AL Rev. J Jessop:AL
1835	Keel	J Robison T.?P.:AL J Robison T.?P.:AL (Lo)
1835	Keel	HCER 1826:AL House of Commons Education Report 1826 as AL Bliain: 1835
1835	Keele	Inq. J I:AL Ionchoisní Shéamais I, foinse in AL / Inquisitions James I, source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830/1840idí
1835	Caol 'a narrow piece of land or neck'	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
1908	Caol 'narrow ridge, a marsh.	MacGivney Leathanach: 149 Place names of the County Longford. Correctly spelled in Irish and fully explained in English, with notes and illustrations by Rev. Joseph MacGivney
2008	kiːl	Áit. Fianaise áitiúil, ar théip go hiondúil, ar coimeád i gcartlann an Bhrainse Logainmneacha. Bliain: 1952-

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