An Chúil Uachtarach/Cool Upper

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Hierarchy

townland

An Chúil Uachtarach

genitive: na Cúile Uachtaraí

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(Irish)

Cool Upper

(English)

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Glossary

cúil

English corner, nook

Hierarchy

county

Dún na nGall/Donegal

barony

Cill Mhic Réanáin/Kilmacrenan

municipal district

Leitir Ceanainn–Baile na nGallóglach/Letterkenny–Milford

civil parish

Cill Mhic Réanáin/Kilmacrenan

electoral division

Creamhghort/Cranford

Explanatory note

English

the corner, nook

Centrepoint

55.1187, -7.72639latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1654	Coole	CS III Leathanach: 96 Civil Survey III. Counties of Donegal, Londonderry and Tyrone. (ed. Simington, 1937) Bliain: 1654
1659	Cowle	Cen. Leathanach: 59 A census of Ireland, circa 1659: with supplementary material from the poll money ordinances (1660-1661), eag. S. Pender (1939) Bliain foilsithe: 1939, Údar: S. Pender, Áit foilsithe: Dublin
1665	Cowle	HMR Hearth Money Roll
1727	Coule	CGn. 53.136.34767 Harrison to Arthur Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1775	Upper Cool Upper Cool is mostly mountainy ground , is generally fit for feeding and dairy, part of which is good [..] pasture, it has some good farm cabins, comes near the sea and has lime stone on it and may be much improved at a small expence by sea land and sea ore, as it is very Improveable.	Frizell TCD 1775, Richard Frizell. Maps of the estate of the College of the holy and undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth in the kingdom of Ireland, 1775.
1779	Upper Cool	Clements MS 14 A. 17 / (052) Leitrim Papers: A Book of Maps of Sundry Denominations of lands in the Barony of Kilmacrennon and County of Donegal the Estate of Robert Clements Esquire, surveyed 1779 by David McCool National Library of Ireland / Leabharlann Náisiúnta na Éireann: MS 14 A. 17. Ar fáil: https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000361898?sid=6757245
1835	Upper Cool, Lower Cool	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1835	Cúl 'back'	OD:AL O'Donovan (leagan Gaeilge de logainm nó nóta agus é scríofa le dúch; John O’Donovan / Seán Ó Donnabháin a scríobh de ghnáth), ex AL. A note or an Irish form of a placename in the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks, usually written by John O'Donovan. Bliain: 1830-40, Bliain: 1835, Bliain: 1838 Local:AL Foirm in úsáid áitiúil / Finné nó úsáid áitiúil de réir AL Bliain: 1832-38

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