townland
Inis Mac nÉirín
genitive: Inis Mac nÉirín
non-validated name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Church Island
(English)

Glossary

inis, inse
English island; river meadow

Explanatory note

  • Gaeilge

    'an t-ainm pearsanta Eirnín > Éirín (LMG ii 772 §739.2)?' tráchtas PhD le Liam Ó hAisibéil

Archival records

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Historical references

1440
Inismacnerin (Insula Macneri)
. IX 132-142 To the bishop of Elphin, and the abbot of Holy Trinity, Lochque, and the prior of Inchmacnerin (Insula Macneri), in the diocese of Elphin. Mandate (the pope having been informed by Thady Macdonchayd, clerk, of the diocese of Elphin, that Maurice Oconcubayr, rector of Callri sive Innismoyr in the said diocese, has publicly kept for several years as his concubine a certain woman by whom he has had offspring still living ...
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