BROWSE
townland
Breac-chluain
genitive: Bhreac-chluana
(Irish)
Bracklon
(English)

Glossary

English speckled
cluain, cluaine
English meadow, pasture

Centrepoint

53.7122, -7.62333latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1586
Breaklone
CPR Leathanach: 255b
1612
Bracklonye
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.1
1620
Bracklone and Mote-bracklone (Andrew Nugent, esq.)
CPR Leathanach: 499a
1620
Bracklone
CPR Leathanach: 499b
1629
Bracklone
Cotton Map
1654-56
the moore of Bracklone
CS X Leathanach: 45
1654-56
Bracklonnagh
CS X Leathanach: 47
1655
Brocklonagh
DS
1659
Bracklone
Cen. Leathanach: 455
c.1660
Brucklonagh
BSD Leathanach: 153
1685
Brocklona
Hib. Del.
1688
Bracklonagh and Moate Bracklonagh
CG Leathanach: 49b
1813
Bracklin
Edgeworth
1836
Bracklin
BS:AL
1836
Breac Linn, “Trout or River Trout” [iomlán scriosta]
Quinn, E.:AL
1836
Bracklonye
Inq. J I:AL
1836
Brucklonagh?
DS:AL
1836
breac-cluanach, “speckled Clon, lawn or meadow”
OD:AL
1836
See Indexes – especially Sligo – See Dooghlan i.e. Brack-clon
Nóta:AL
1836
...contains several pieces of bog on the North East boundary...the remainder is well cultivated...
Desc. Rem.:AL
1836
Bracklin
Edgeworth Map (AL)
1908
Bracklin; Breac Chluanach, “speckled town – O Donovan”
MacGivney Leathanach: 48
2007
ˈbraklən
Áit.

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