BROWSE
townland
Coill na Cora
genitive: Choill na Cora
non-validated name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Kilnacarrow
(English)

Glossary

coill, coillidh, coillte, coille
English wood
cora, coraidh, corann
English weir, stone-fence, ford

Hierarchy

county

barony

civil parish

electoral division

Explanatory note

  • Gaeilge

    the wood of the weir
    Féach piscar[ia], 'fishery', sa bhaile fearainn seo de réir iontráil 1632

  • English

    the wood of the weir
    See piscar[ia], 'fishery', in this townland according to the entry from 1632

Centrepoint

53.5816, -7.69375latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1578
Killnecarra (Jonin O Bardan) [Timpeall deiscirt an chontae a bhí muintir Uí Bhardáin]
F Leathanach: 3421
1581
Killinnecarra
F Leathanach: 3829
1619-22
Killnecarrow
CPR Leathanach: 533b
1629
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Cotton Map
1632
Killnecarran...1 molendin’ aquatic’, 1 piscar
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 10 Car.1
1655
Kilnacarra [roinnt tithe léirithe]
DS
1659
Killincarroe
Cen. Leathanach: 452
c.1660
Killnacarragh
BSD Leathanach: 118
1666
Killincarra (Capt. Henry Sankey)
ASE Leathanach: 63
1813
Killnecarrow
Edgeworth
1835
Kilnacarrow
BS:AL
1835
Killnacarrow
Butler, H.:AL
1835
Killnecarrow
Edgeworth Map (AL)
1835
Killnacarrow
Robinson, J.:AL
1835
Kilnacarrow
Jessop:AL
1835
Killnacarriagh
DS Ref.:AL
1835
Killnacarra
DS Map:AL
1835
Coill na Caraidh, “Sylva piscinae, wood of the fishing weir”
OD:AL
1835
the River Inney is its south boundary
Desc. Rem.:AL
1908
Coill na Coradh, “wood of the weir”
MacGivney Leathanach: 155
2008
kilnəˈkarə
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