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Coill Fhiontain Íochtarach nó An Crann Cam
genitive: an Chrainn Chaim, Coill Fhiontain Íochtarach
(Irish)
Kilfintan Lower or Crancam
(English)
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Historical references
1406 |
...i m-Bealach Caille-Finntain ‘sa n-Enghaile... [? suíomh]
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AU I Leathanach: iii, 54
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1620 |
Killfenton alias Killfentons
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CPR Leathanach: 467a
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1629 |
2 killefentons
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1654-56 |
Killfintin in the barony of Ardagh
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CS X Leathanach: 45
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1659 |
Kilfinton
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Cen. Leathanach: 454
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c.1660 |
Killfinten
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BSD Leathanach: 151
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c.1660 |
Killfinton
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BSD Leathanach: 152
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1710 |
Kilfenton
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CGn. Leathanach: 5.194.1546
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1813 |
Crancam
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1836 |
Lower Kilfintan or Crancam
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1836 |
Kilfenton Crancam
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1836 |
Kilfinton
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1836 |
Cill Fiontáin, “Fintan’s Church” otherwise Crann Cam, “crooked tree”, Ecclesia Fintani
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1836 |
crann cram
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pl:AL Nóta: scriosta
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1908 |
Crann Cam, “crooked tree”
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MacGivney Leathanach: 91
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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?
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JACAS Imleabhar: II (7), Leathanach: 97, Nóta: 'Street Parish'
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1965 |
Cill Fhionntáin
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1965 |
Corrán Cam (?)
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2007 |
kilˈfintən
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2007 |
kran
(sic)
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