Hierarchy
county
barony
civil parish
townland
Granard
(English)
Centrepoint
53.7779, -7.49771latitude, longitude
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Gránard
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236 |
Cath Granaird...
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ARÉ Leathanach: i, 112
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476 |
Cath Granaird...
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ARÉ Leathanach: i, 148
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485 |
Bellum Gránaird...
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AIF Leathanach: 62
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765 |
Fiachra Granaird décc
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ARÉ Leathanach: i, 366
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c.900 |
...dó-sum Gránard ó maccaib Coirpri...
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Bethu Phát. Leathanach: 55
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c.900 |
...airchindach Gránairt...
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Bethu Phát. Leathanach: 55
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c.900 |
...hi gGránáurd...
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Bethu Phát. Leathanach: 100
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1096 |
Gránard
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ARÉ Leathanach: ii, 896
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1199 |
...Caisslen Granaird...
Caisslen Granaird do dhenum is in m-bliadain
8] si. ALC 1199..5
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ALC Leathanach: i, 206
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1223 |
...do marbhadh i n-Ghranard
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AU I Leathanach: ii, 270
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1262 |
...go Granard Teathba...
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ARÉ Leathanach: iii, 388
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1272 |
An midhe do losccadh go Granaird...
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ARÉ Leathanach: iii, 416
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1272 |
...go Granard...
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ALC Leathanach: i, 470
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1275 |
...i nGranard...
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ARÉ Leathanach: iii, 424
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1275 |
...a nGranárd...
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ALC Leathanach: i, 478
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1302-06 |
Grenard
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Pap. Tax. Leathanach: 214, 260
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1315 |
...co Granard...
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ALC Leathanach: i, 568
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1369 |
Granard
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Reg. Swete. Leathanach: 265
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1405 |
Caislen Gránaird do dhenamh...
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MIA Leathanach: 174
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1408 |
Granard
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Reg. Flem. Leathanach: 117
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1420 |
Caislen Granaird i Carpri Gabrai do gabail...
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AConn. Leathanach: 454
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1438 |
...par. ecclesie S. Marie loci de Granardo...
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Ann. Ult. Leathanach: 160
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1441 |
..par. ecclesie B. Me. de Granardo..
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Ann. Ult. Leathanach: 161
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1444 |
...abbas monasterii B. Me. de Granardo...
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Ann. Ult. Leathanach: 161
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1475 |
...décc hi nGranard...
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ARÉ Leathanach: iv, 1090
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1479 |
St. Mary’s de Lera alias de Granardo
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CPL Imleabhar: XIII, cuid 1, Leathanach: 99
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1484 |
the monastery of St. Mary, Granard
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CPL Imleabhar: XV, Leathanach: 36
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1488 |
St Mary de Grana[r]do
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CPL Imleabhar: XIV, Leathanach: 223
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1488 |
St. Mary, de Guanardo [sic de Granardo] alias de Leathen
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CPL Imleabhar: XIV, Leathanach: 234
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1536-7 |
the vicarage of Garnard (Richard Wacfeld)
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CPCR Leathanach: 29, Imleabhar: I
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1539-40 |
abbey of Granarde
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F Leathanach: 99
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1540-41 |
Abbey of Granard
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Ir. Mon. Poss. Leathanach: 280
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1540-41 |
Maghyrt Granard
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Ir. Mon. Poss. Leathanach: 280
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1540-44 |
the abbey of Granarde (Thady M’Gyllernewe)
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CPCR Leathanach: 61, Imleabhar: I
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1541 |
Granard
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F Leathanach: 200
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1541 |
Granarde
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F Leathanach: 215
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1552 |
Granard
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CPCR Leathanach: 268, Imleabhar: I
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1552 |
the vicarage of Granard (John Drover)
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F Alt: 991
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1556-7 |
Grannard (Robert Nugent, Vicar of)
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CPCR Leathanach: 366, Imleabhar: I
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1557-8 |
the late Abbey of Granard, Co. Westmeath
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Nugent Papers Leathanach: 129
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1561 |
Maghirt Granard
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F Leathanach: 326
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1562 |
...ó Granard Teathba...
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ARÉ Leathanach: v, 1590
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1569 |
Granard
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F Leathanach: 1401
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1569 |
Maghirt Granarde
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F Leathanach: 1401
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1569 |
the late priory of Larro alias Granard
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F Leathanach: 1401
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1578 |
the priory of Larro alias Granard
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F Leathanach: 3300
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1582 |
Granard
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F Leathanach: 3855
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1584 |
Granarde
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F Leathanach: 4381
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1586 |
Granard
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F Leathanach: 4904
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1588 |
Granard
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F Leathanach: 5142
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1590 |
Magherygranard (Lease to Henry Sheffield)
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F Leathanach: 5499
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1593 |
Maghery Granard (Francis Shane)
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F Leathanach: 5832
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1593 |
Maghery Granard
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CPCR Leathanach: 271, Imleabhar: II
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c.1610 |
Muintir Ghranaird
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Tribes Ir. Leathanach: 48
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1612 |
Granarde
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Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.1
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1612 |
Maghery-granard
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CPR Leathanach: 244b
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1612 |
the abbey of the B.V. Mary of Larha otherwise Granard
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CPR Leathanach: 244b
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1612 |
Granarde
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Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.1
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1612 |
Granarde
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Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.1
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1613 |
Granard otherwise Granardkill
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CPR Leathanach: 257a
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1614 |
the late monastery of Granard otherwise the B.V. Mary of Learagh
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CPR Leathanach: 264a
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1618 |
Maghery-Granard
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CPR Leathanach: 348b
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1618 |
the abby of the B.V. Mary of Larha otherwise Granard
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CPR Leathanach: 349a
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1618 |
the monastery of Granard otherwise Larha
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CPR Leathanach: 364b
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1618 |
the Monastery of Granard
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CPR Leathanach: 401b
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1619/20 |
Granard Shehan alias Cartron-Caslane
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CPR Leathanach: 452a
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1620 |
Granard-Shehan alias Cartronecaslane [fch. 1619/20 thuas]
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CPR Leathanach: 452a
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1622 |
...the manor of Granard...
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Mem. Inhabs. Lo. Leathanach: 295
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1622 |
...the town of Granard...
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Mem. Inhabs. Lo. Leathanach: 296
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1627 |
Granard (1315)
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AClon. Leathanach: 271
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1627 |
Granard (1272)
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AClon. Leathanach: 249
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1629 |
Granard
pictiúr de thigh láidir ar chnoc ard
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1630 |
...i nGranard
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FNÉ Leathanach: 26
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1630 |
...a ngar go Ghranard...
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FNÉ Leathanach: 340
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1632 |
Granard
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Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 9 Car.1
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1632 |
rector’ de Magherygranard
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Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 9 Car.1
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1640 |
the Abbey of Granard alias Lara
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Nugent Papers Leathanach: 144
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1644 |
Grān Ard
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O Mealláin Leathanach: 28
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1654-56 |
Granard
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CS X Leathanach: 47
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1659 |
Granard
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c.1660 |
Granard
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BSD Leathanach: 161
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1682 |
Granard
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1714 |
Grenard
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1724 |
the Parish of Moyhere Granard
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CGn. Leathanach: 45.39.27616
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1813 |
Granard
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1836 |
Granard
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1836 |
Granarde
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1836 |
Granard occurs in the Annals of the F.M at the years 236, 476, 480, 765, 1069, 1202, 1272, 1275, 1475, 1562.
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1836 |
Granard
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1836 |
Granard occurs in the Annals of the F.M at the years 236, 476, 480, 765, 1069, 1202, 1272, 1275, 1475, 1562.
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1836 |
Granard
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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...
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LSO (Lo) Leathanach: 18
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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”.
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MacGivney Leathanach: 128 - 131
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1911 |
Gránrad
"Gránarad ... used in Co. Longford [LSO] ... Gránrad is used in Co. Cavan."
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Laoide Imleabhar: II, Leathanach: 155
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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”
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Hist. Ardagh Leathanach: 171
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2007 |
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