An Mhín Dorcha/Meendurragha

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An Mhín Dorcha

genitive: na Míne Dorcha

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(Irish)

Meendurragha

(English)

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mín

English mountain pasture

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county

Corcaigh/Cork

barony

Dúiche Ealla/Duhallow

civil parish

Cill Mhín/Kilmeen

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52.2073, -9.20429latitude, longitude

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Archival records

Historical references

1834	Lighthouse (s.n. Timothy Connell)	O'Kief Leathanach: II, 139 O’Kief, Coshe Mang, Slieve Lougher and Upper Blackwater in Ireland, Vols. I-XV Bliain foilsithe: 1952-71, Údar: Albert Eugene Casey, Áit foilsithe: Birmingham, Alabama, Nóta eolais: Published and bound privately for the Knocknagree Historical Fund
1835	Lighthouse (s.n. Nora Connell)	O'Kief Leathanach: II, 164 O’Kief, Coshe Mang, Slieve Lougher and Upper Blackwater in Ireland, Vols. I-XV Bliain foilsithe: 1952-71, Údar: Albert Eugene Casey, Áit foilsithe: Birmingham, Alabama, Nóta eolais: Published and bound privately for the Knocknagree Historical Fund
1840	Meendurragha or Lighthouse	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1840	Meendurragha or Light House	Longfield, Col.:AL Longfield, Col.:AL
1840	Meendurragha or Light House	Naughton, Rev.:AL Naughton, Rev.:AL
1840	mín dorcha	EC:AL Leagan Gaeilge logainm arna scríobh ag Eoghan Ó Comhraí, ex AL/Irish placename form written by Eugene (O') Curry, ex AL Bliain: 1830-40
1840	dark plain	OD:AL O'Donovan (leagan Gaeilge de logainm nó nóta agus é scríofa le dúch; John O’Donovan / Seán Ó Donnabháin a scríobh de ghnáth), ex AL. A note or an Irish form of a placename in the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks, usually written by John O'Donovan. Bliain: 1830-40, Bliain: 1835, Bliain: 1838
1844	The Light House (s.n. John Connell	Ardf. Wills Index to Wills, 1690-1858, Diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe. (Cartlann Náisiúta: XX 30)
1844	Light House. In former times this was the only house of entertainment on the road from Kanturk to Castleisland. A light was kept up in it to guide persons who might be crossing the mountains after night. From this circumstance it got the name Light House, which it still retains.	MSO Co Leathanach: IV 545 Ordnance Survey Memoranda, County Cork, I-IV. An Chartlann Náisiúnta.

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