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Breaclainn
genitive: Bhreaclainne
(Irish)
Bracklin
(English)
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Historical references
1540c |
Breclon (Johannes Nugent)
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Crown Surv. Leathanach: 318
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1583 |
Brackline (Ed. Nugent)
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F Leathanach: 4151
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1584 |
Barcklin (Edw. Nugent)
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F Leathanach: 4463
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1610 |
Braclin (Edw. Nugent)
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CPR Leathanach: 173a
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1623 |
Bracklan (Edw. Nugent)
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Inq. Leathanach: 46 (JI)
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1630 |
Bracklyn (Edw. Nugent)
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Inq. Leathanach: 50 (CI)
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1632 |
Bracklan (Edw. Nugent)
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Inq. Leathanach: 82 (CI)
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1636 |
Bracklin...Bracklinkenny (Oliver Pluncket, Edw. Nugent)
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Inq. Leathanach: 138 (CI)
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1655-7 |
Bracklin
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1659 |
Bracklin
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Cen. Leathanach: 528
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1660c |
Bracklyn
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BSD Leathanach: 76
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1666 |
Brackline
p. Moycashell
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ASE Leathanach: 52
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1685c |
Bracklin
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1687 |
Brachlyn
Edw. & Gilbert Nugent
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1708 |
Bracklin
Paefer - Walton
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CGn. Leathanach: 2.307.472
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1836 |
Bracklin
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1836 |
Bracklyn
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1836 |
Bracklin
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1836 |
Bracklin
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1836 |
Bracklyn
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1836 |
Bracklin
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1836 |
Brackland
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1836 |
Bracklon, Bracklan, Bracklin, Bracklyn
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1836 |
Breaclach
"speckled land. now breac cluain, strolled lawn or meadow"
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1836 |
Bracklin
"a part of a castle"
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1836 |
[Bracklin]
"Nearly 1/2 of this Townland is bog chiefly situated in the Eastern Portion of it there is a wood nearby in the Centre of the Townlwnd 20 chains south of said wood is a lake surrounded by a plantation. Bracklin House and Burying Ground is situated in the Western Portion. There is a portion of wood that extends eastward from the Western and South of Bracklin House there is a Danish Fort.
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1837 |
Bracklin
...called Breaclach by Mac Firbhisigh, who mentions it as the seat of a branch of the Nugents: genelach Fuinsionnaigh Breaclaighe annso; Genealogies 840 f. [Litir JOD]
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LSO (IM):PN Westmeath Leathanach: 85
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