BROWSE
townland
Cluain Oircín
genitive: Chluain Oircín
(Irish)
Clonerkin
(English)

Centrepoint

52.9103, -6.30283latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1567
Cloneurkin
F
1573
Clonehurky
F
1606
Clon-Irkin
CPR
1617
Clonecurkine
Inq. Lag.
1623
Clonerkin
CPR
1641
Clanarkin
Dep. 1641
1660c
Clone Irkin
BSD (CM)
1668
Clanirkin
HMR (CM)
1721
Clonarkin
CGn.
1727
Clonerkin
Dublin Wills
1743
Clonerkin
Dublin Wills
1747
Clonerkin
Dublin Wills
1760
Clonerkin
Nevill 1760
1766c
Clonerkin
Three 18th cent. surveys: Wicklow
1810
Clonerkin
Dublin Wills (B)
1825
Clonarkin
TAB
1838
Clonerkin
CGn.
1839
Cleneskin Townland
Rec. Name:AL Leathanach: CM007,7
1839
Clonerkin
Cess Bk. 1830:AL Leathanach: CM007,7
1839
Clonerkin
OD:AL Leathanach: CM007,7
1839
Cluain Eircin, 'Erkin's lawn or meadow'
OD:AL Leathanach: CM007,7
1839
Clonerkin
TAB Leathanach: CM007,7
1839
Clenerkin
Allen Nevill Map:AL (CM) Leathanach: CM007,7
1839
Clonerkin
Bk. Lands, Index to:AL Leathanach: CM007,7
1932
Some suggestions about Wicklow placenames made to me by Nioclás Toibín of Carlow (native speaker from Co. Waterford):...'Cluain an fheircín ('firkin of butter' or 'seire' = 'peak of a hat', 'a tilt', 'a quirk'). (172-3)
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