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Loch Chluain na Cloiche
genitive: Loch Chluain na Cloiche
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(Irish)
Cloonacleigha Lake
(English)
Glossary
cloch, cloich
English stone, stone building
cluain, cluaine
English meadow, pasture
English lake; inlet
Centrepoint
54.0668, -8.59615latitude, longitude
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Historical references
| 1655-7 |
Lough
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| 1819 |
Lake
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| 1836 |
Names of Lakes Cloonaclighan
SL012,80
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| 1836 |
Clún a cloiche lake
SL012,80
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| 1889 |
Cloonacleigha lake ... Loch Uamach ... Loch Uamha
O’Rorke (ii, 192) ‘and though Colgan takes Loch Uamach to be some lake near ‘‘near the river Bonet, in Breffny,’’ there is good reason to thin that it is Cloonacleigha lake, which joins Cloonoghill, and which, like Lough Gara and so many Irish lakes, has changed its name in the course of time. Very probably it had its old name of Loch Uamha, or Cave lake, from a large and remarkable cave in a little hill to (193) the west of the old church of Cloonoghill ; and it is equally probable that the actual name of CLoonacleigha, or recess of the stones, comes from the great flags with which the cave was covered.
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