BROWSE
townland
Coill Fhiontain
genitive: Choill Fhiontain
(Irish)
Kilfintan
(English)

Glossary

coill, coillidh, coillte, coille
English wood

Hierarchy

county

barony

civil parish

Centrepoint

53.7285, -7.47184latitude, longitude
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Archival records

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Historical references

1396
Loscu & geardh Chailledh Fintainn & an Mhaini Duibh...
Deir an t-eag. “(?) in Co. Cavan” ach níos dóichí gur an áit seo atá i gceist.
MIA Leathanach: 154
1406
...i m-Bealach Caille-Finntain ‘sa n-Enghaile...
? Suíomh
AU I Leathanach: iii, 54
1612
Kiltefenton
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.1
1612
Kiltefintine
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.1
1620
Killfenton alias Killfentons
CPR Leathanach: 467a
1620
Kilfenton
CPR Leathanach: 491a
1620
Kilfentons
CPR Leathanach: 499b
1620
Killfentons
CPR Leathanach: 538b
1621
Kilfentons
CPR Leathanach: 533b
1629
2 Killefentons
Cotton Map
1654-56
Killfintin in the barony of Ardagh
CS X Leathanach: 45
1655
Parte of Kilfinton Colledg land
DS
1659
Kilfinton
Cen. Leathanach: 454
c.1660
Killfinten
BSD Leathanach: 151
c.1660
Killfinton
BSD Leathanach: 152
1668
Killfinton
ASE Leathanach: 139
1670
Kilfinton
ASE Leathanach: 219
1684
Kilfenton (Charles Adare)
CG Leathanach: 15a
1703
Kilfinton
Trustees Leathanach: 388
1710
Kilfenton
CGn. Leathanach: 5.194.1546
1813
Kilfenton
Edgeworth
1836
Kilfinton
BS:AL
1836
Kilfenton
Edgeworth Map (AL)
1836
Cill Fionntáin, “Ecclesia Sancti Fintani, St. Fintan’s Church”
OD:AL
1836
This should properly be the name of the parish
OD:AL
1836
three Danish forts
Desc. Rem.:AL
1836
Kilfinton
DS:AL
1836
Kilfinton
Inq. J I:AL
1836
This should properly be the name of the parish
OD:AL
1908
Cill Fiontain, “St. Fintan’s Church”
MacGivney Leathanach: 151
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

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