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Explanatory note
- Gaeilge
the church of Garbhán
Garbhán – ainm naoimhPléitear an logainm seo in Mac Giolla Easpaig, D. (1995). Placenames and Early Settlement in County Donegal. In W. Nolan, L. Ronayne, & M. Dunlevy (Eag.), Donegal History and Society (lgh. 149–183). Geography Publications.
- English
the church of Garbhán
Garbhán – saint’s nameThis placename is discussed in Mac Giolla Easpaig, D. (1995). Placenames and Early Settlement in County Donegal. In W. Nolan, L. Ronayne, & M. Dunlevy (Eds.), Donegal History and Society (pp. 149–183). Geography Publications.
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Historical references
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“Killygarvan is originally Cill Gharbháin 'the church of Garbhán.' There are eight saints of the name Garbhán listed in the martyrologies. One of them is commemorated in the Martyrology of Tallaght on 9 July: Garbán sac. Cinn tSaile (Garbhán a priest of Ceann Sáile). The later commentaries identify the placename Ceann Sáile as Kinsealy in County Dublin: ó Chinn tSaile leith aniár do Shurd, no i niarthur Erenn (from Ceann Saile to the west of Sord, or in the western part of Ireland).103 Placename evidence, however, suggests that this entry refers to Garbhán, the patron of Killygarvan. No trace of the original church of Cill Gharbháin now remains but it apparently lay in the modern townland of Glebe which was originally part of the townland of Killygarvan Upper.104 There was a holy well known as Tobar Garbháin near the churchyard which those leaving home would visit as a cure for loneliness.
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105 The townland adjoining the townland of Glebe is called Kintale, which derives from Irish Cionn tSáile. On balance, therefore, it is more probable that Ceann Sáile cited in the entry above refers to the townland of Kintale in Killygarvan Parish than to Kinsealy in Co. Dublin.” D. Mac Giolla Easpaig, Donegal: Hist. & Soc. 173
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1302-6 |
Kellgarvan
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Pap. Tax. Leathanach: 213
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1609 |
Kilgarvane
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Inq. Ult. App. Leathanach: V
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1654 |
Killgarvan (Parish of, Church called) . .
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CS III Leathanach: 103
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1659 |
Killigarvan qr, (Par).
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Cen. Leathanach: 55
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1776 |
Kiligarvan
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1801 |
Killy Garvan (p.)
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1801 |
Killygurvan (bf)
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1835c |
Killygarvan (Parish)
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1835c |
Upper Killygarvan, Lower Killigarvan
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1835c |
Cill a Gharbhain 'Garvans church'
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