BROWSE
Gránard
genitive: Ghránaird
(Irish)
Granard
(English)

Hierarchy

county

barony

civil parish

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53.7779, -7.49771latitude, longitude
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Historical references

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Gránard
Moladh
236
Cath Granaird...
ARÉ Leathanach: i, 112
476
Cath Granaird...
ARÉ Leathanach: i, 148
485
Bellum Gránaird...
AIF Leathanach: 62
765
Fiachra Granaird décc
ARÉ Leathanach: i, 366
c.900
...dó-sum Gránard ó maccaib Coirpri...
Bethu Phát. Leathanach: 55
c.900
...airchindach Gránairt...
Bethu Phát. Leathanach: 55
c.900
...hi gGránáurd...
Bethu Phát. Leathanach: 100
1096
Gránard
ARÉ Leathanach: ii, 896
1199
...Caisslen Granaird...
Caisslen Granaird do dhenum is in m-bliadain 8] si. ALC 1199..5
ALC Leathanach: i, 206
1223
...do marbhadh i n-Ghranard
AU I Leathanach: ii, 270
1262
...go Granard Teathba...
ARÉ Leathanach: iii, 388
1272
An midhe do losccadh go Granaird...
ARÉ Leathanach: iii, 416
1272
...go Granard...
ALC Leathanach: i, 470
1275
...i nGranard...
ARÉ Leathanach: iii, 424
1275
...a nGranárd...
ALC Leathanach: i, 478
1302-06
Grenard
Pap. Tax. Leathanach: 214, 260
1315
...co Granard...
ALC Leathanach: i, 568
1369
Granard
Reg. Swete. Leathanach: 265
1405
Caislen Gránaird do dhenamh...
MIA Leathanach: 174
1408
Granard
Reg. Flem. Leathanach: 117
1420
Caislen Granaird i Carpri Gabrai do gabail...
AConn. Leathanach: 454
1438
...par. ecclesie S. Marie loci de Granardo...
Ann. Ult. Leathanach: 160
1441
..par. ecclesie B. Me. de Granardo..
Ann. Ult. Leathanach: 161
1444
...abbas monasterii B. Me. de Granardo...
Ann. Ult. Leathanach: 161
1475
...décc hi nGranard...
ARÉ Leathanach: iv, 1090
1479
St. Mary’s de Lera alias de Granardo
CPL Imleabhar: XIII, cuid 1, Leathanach: 99
1484
the monastery of St. Mary, Granard
CPL Imleabhar: XV, Leathanach: 36
1488
St Mary de Grana[r]do
CPL Imleabhar: XIV, Leathanach: 223
1488
St. Mary, de Guanardo [sic de Granardo] alias de Leathen
CPL Imleabhar: XIV, Leathanach: 234
1536-7
the vicarage of Garnard (Richard Wacfeld)
CPCR Leathanach: 29, Imleabhar: I
1539-40
abbey of Granarde
F Leathanach: 99
1540-41
Abbey of Granard
Ir. Mon. Poss. Leathanach: 280
1540-41
Maghyrt Granard
Ir. Mon. Poss. Leathanach: 280
1540-44
the abbey of Granarde (Thady M’Gyllernewe)
CPCR Leathanach: 61, Imleabhar: I
1541
Granard
F Leathanach: 200
1541
Granarde
F Leathanach: 215
1552
Granard
CPCR Leathanach: 268, Imleabhar: I
1552
the vicarage of Granard (John Drover)
F Alt: 991
1556-7
Grannard (Robert Nugent, Vicar of)
CPCR Leathanach: 366, Imleabhar: I
1557-8
the late Abbey of Granard, Co. Westmeath
Nugent Papers Leathanach: 129
1561
Maghirt Granard
F Leathanach: 326
1562
...ó Granard Teathba...
ARÉ Leathanach: v, 1590
1569
Granard
F Leathanach: 1401
1569
Maghirt Granarde
F Leathanach: 1401
1569
the late priory of Larro alias Granard
F Leathanach: 1401
1578
the priory of Larro alias Granard
F Leathanach: 3300
1582
Granard
F Leathanach: 3855
1584
Granarde
F Leathanach: 4381
1586
Granard
F Leathanach: 4904
1588
Granard
F Leathanach: 5142
1590
Magherygranard (Lease to Henry Sheffield)
F Leathanach: 5499
1593
Maghery Granard (Francis Shane)
F Leathanach: 5832
1593
Maghery Granard
CPCR Leathanach: 271, Imleabhar: II
c.1610
Muintir Ghranaird
Tribes Ir. Leathanach: 48
1612
Granarde
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.1
1612
Maghery-granard
CPR Leathanach: 244b
1612
the abbey of the B.V. Mary of Larha otherwise Granard
CPR Leathanach: 244b
1612
Granarde
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.1
1612
Granarde
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.1
1613
Granard otherwise Granardkill
CPR Leathanach: 257a
1614
the late monastery of Granard otherwise the B.V. Mary of Learagh
CPR Leathanach: 264a
1618
Maghery-Granard
CPR Leathanach: 348b
1618
the abby of the B.V. Mary of Larha otherwise Granard
CPR Leathanach: 349a
1618
the monastery of Granard otherwise Larha
CPR Leathanach: 364b
1618
the Monastery of Granard
CPR Leathanach: 401b
1619/20
Granard Shehan alias Cartron-Caslane
CPR Leathanach: 452a
1620
Granard-Shehan alias Cartronecaslane [fch. 1619/20 thuas]
CPR Leathanach: 452a
1622
...the manor of Granard...
Mem. Inhabs. Lo. Leathanach: 295
1622
...the town of Granard...
Mem. Inhabs. Lo. Leathanach: 296
1627
Granard (1315)
AClon. Leathanach: 271
1627
Granard (1272)
AClon. Leathanach: 249
1629
Granard
pictiúr de thigh láidir ar chnoc ard
Cotton Map
1630
...i nGranard
FNÉ Leathanach: 26
1630
...a ngar go Ghranard...
FNÉ Leathanach: 340
1632
Granard
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 9 Car.1
1632
rector’ de Magherygranard
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 9 Car.1
1640
the Abbey of Granard alias Lara
Nugent Papers Leathanach: 144
1644
Grān Ard
O Mealláin Leathanach: 28
1654-56
Granard
CS X Leathanach: 47
1659
Granard
Cen.
c.1660
Granard
BSD Leathanach: 161
1682
Granard
Dowdall
1714
Grenard
Moll Map
1724
the Parish of Moyhere Granard
CGn. Leathanach: 45.39.27616
1813
Granard
Edgeworth
1836
Granard
?
1836
Granarde
Inq. J I:AL
1836
Granard occurs in the Annals of the F.M at the years 236, 476, 480, 765, 1069, 1202, 1272, 1275, 1475, 1562.
Nóta:AL
1836
Granard
Inq. J I:AL
1836
Granard occurs in the Annals of the F.M at the years 236, 476, 480, 765, 1069, 1202, 1272, 1275, 1475, 1562.
Nóta:AL
1836
Granard
Inq. J I:AL
1837
The local interpretation of Granard is the ugly height, i.e. a name supposed to have been originally given to the moat, but quite different from the locus amoenus of the Tripartite...The simplest and least forced derivation would be Grán-Árd, a compound in which not one single letter is changed, even in quality...
LSO (Lo) Leathanach: 18
1908
Gránárd or Gránrad, “ugly height; or as Dr. O’ Connor interprets it, Gréine Árd, hill of the sun”... “the more ancient name of Granard was Meathuslith”... “It is traditionally told by the oldest men in the parishes of Ballymachugh, Abbeylara, and Mullahoran that Granard means “ugly height”.
MacGivney Leathanach: 128 - 131
1911
Gránrad
"Gránarad ... used in Co. Longford [LSO] ... Gránrad is used in Co. Cavan."
Laoide Imleabhar: II, Leathanach: 155
1954
“...unquestionably when we hear of St. Mary’s, Granard, from the 13th to the 16th centuries, we are to understand the monastery of Leathrath or Abbeylara”
Hist. Ardagh Leathanach: 171
2007
ˈgranərd
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