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- Gaeilge
field of (the) bare trees?
Bhí an consan deiridh leathan ag cainteoirí dúchasacha a taifeadadh timpeall 1960, cé go dtabharfadh foirmeacha na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis (1839) an t-ainm Gort Lomáin le fios. Tá bríonna éagsúla leis an ainmfhocal lomán - English
field of (the) bare trees?
Native Irish speakers interviewed in the 1960s in the course of field work stated that the last consonant was broad (implying the genitive plural), although the Irish forms collected by the Ordnance Survey (1839) suggest Gort Lomáin (genitive singular). The word lomán has several meanings
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