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Marfagh
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55.1884, -8.01896latitude, longitude
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Historical references
| 1600 |
Varvagh
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F Leathanach: 6382
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| 1655c |
Murvagh, Morvagh
'This Morvagh is a very remarkable place in wch is a great concave in the rocks out of which the sea at full tide throughes up stoanes & water yt makes soe greate a noyse that it may be heared ten or twelve miles.
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| 1660c |
Murvaghie
Bissp Lands
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| 1762 |
Marvagh
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CGn. 219.496.144468: Stewart to Stewart
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| 1835 |
Murvagh
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| 1835 |
"Mac Swine's gun is called Marbhthach or destructive from the terror of her report which is heard at the Giant's causeway." "This MacSwines Gun is the celebrated Tonn Tuatha (wave of Doe of Irish writers O Thonn Chliodhna go Tonn Tuatha)
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| 1835 |
Marbhthach 'destructive'
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| 1835 |
Muirbach 'defence of the water'
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| 1937/38 |
Marbhach
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