BROWSE
townland
Doire na Sceach
genitive: Dhoire na Sceach
non-validated name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Dernaskeagh
(English)

Glossary

English (oak-)wood, grove, thicket
sceach, sceich
English hawthorn, thorn-bush

Hierarchy

county

barony

civil parish

Centrepoint

54.0199, -8.4128latitude, longitude
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Historical references

Dernaskeagh
Dernaskeagh in Cavan and Sligo; Doire-na-sceach, oak wood of the whitethorns: vol.i.p.518.
Joyce Leathanach: 290, Imleabhar: III
n/a
Nóta
n/a
Nóta
n/a
Nóta
1834
Derrynaskagh
TAB
1836
Dernaskagh
BS:AL Leathanach: Sl050,18
1836
Dernaskagh
Old Tithe Bk:AL (Sl) Leathanach: Sl050,18
1836
Doire na sceách, 'oak wood of the briars or thorns'
"á as in father" [dúch]; "From the number of bushes growing on a hill in the townland" [dúch];
OD:AL Leathanach: Sl050,18
1836
Doire na sceách
"a as in father" [pl]; "from [..] bush-wood, from number of bushes growing on the hill in townland" [pl];
pl:AL Leathanach: Sl050,18
1836
Dernaskeagh
OD:AL Leathanach: Sl050,18
1836
[Dernaskeagh]
"a small lake near its N. boundary called Dernaskagh Lough and several large streams" [Desc. Rem.];
Desc. Rem.:AL Leathanach: Sl050,18
2008
Doire na Sceach
Ó Muraíle
2011
[dernǝ ˈsk′a]
Áit.

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