BROWSE
townland
Coill Fhiontain Íochtarach nó An Crann Cam
genitive: an Chrainn Chaim, Coill Fhiontain Íochtarach
(Irish)
Kilfintan Lower or Crancam
(English)

Glossary

coill, coillidh, coillte, coille
English wood
English tree

Hierarchy

county

barony

civil parish

Centrepoint

53.73, -7.48231latitude, longitude
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Archival records

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Historical references

1406
...i m-Bealach Caille-Finntain ‘sa n-Enghaile... [? suíomh]
AU I Leathanach: iii, 54
1620
Killfenton alias Killfentons
CPR Leathanach: 467a
1629
2 killefentons
Cotton Map
1654-56
Killfintin in the barony of Ardagh
CS X Leathanach: 45
1659
Kilfinton
Cen. Leathanach: 454
c.1660
Killfinten
BSD Leathanach: 151
c.1660
Killfinton
BSD Leathanach: 152
1710
Kilfenton
CGn. Leathanach: 5.194.1546
1813
Crancam
Edgeworth
1836
Lower Kilfintan or Crancam
BS:AL
1836
Kilfenton Crancam
Edgeworth Map (AL)
1836
Kilfinton
Rent Bk.:AL
1836
Cill Fiontáin, “Fintan’s Church” otherwise Crann Cam, “crooked tree”, Ecclesia Fintani
OD:AL
1836
crann cram
pl:AL Nóta: scriosta
1908
Crann Cam, “crooked tree”
MacGivney Leathanach: 91
1941
...St. Fintan...There are Stations in his honour on the first Sunday of August...in the Middle Ages there was a wood around here called Caille-Finntain...May it be that the modern Kilfintain represents not Cill-Fintain, Fintain’s Church, but Caille (Coille)-Finntain, the Wood of Finntain?
JACAS Imleabhar: II (7), Leathanach: 97, Nóta: 'Street Parish'
1965
Cill Fhionntáin
Cártaí Móra
1965
Corrán Cam (?)
Cártaí Móra
2007
kilˈfintən
Áit.
2007
kran
(sic)
Áit.

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