BROWSE
civil parishtownland
Cúil Bheannchair
genitive: Chúil Bheannchair
non-validated name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Coolbanagher
(English)

Glossary

English corner, nook

Explanatory note

  • Gaeilge

    corner, nook of (the) place of peaks, row of points?

    Ní cinnte brí beannchar i logainmneacha. Meastar go bhfuil gaol aige le beann “point, peak” (féach www.dil.ie s.v. benn). Níl ach aon chnoc beag amháin sa bhaile fearainn a thug ainm don pharóiste, áfach.

    Féach an aiste ‘Why Bangor ?’ le Bedwyr Lewis Jones in Ainm V ar bhrí Bangor i logainmneacha na Breataine Bige (“an upper plaited rod to strengthen a fence”, comhfhocal ina bhfuil ban- gaolmhar le beann na Gaeilge); tuairimíonn sé go mb’fhéidir gurb éard atá sa logainm Beannchar in Éirinn agus in Albain ná ‘a compound of cor ‘a setting’, and meaning in the first place some kind of plaited fence and subsequently in place-names a place defended by such a structure’ (ibid. 64). Féach freisin faoi Beannchar mór Chontae an Dúin in Dictionary of Ulster Place-names 19–20: ‘The name could refer to pointed rocks on the shore or to a pointed wattled enclosure around the monastic settlement.’

    Ainmneacha stairiúla:
    Cuid de ghabháltas mhuintir Harpoole i gCúil Bheannchair ab ea an chéad trí logainm seo a leanas, maraon le 1564 ‘Ballemolrone’ atá pléite faoi bf An Cheapach Chaol (#28457) soir:

    1. 1549 ‘Sianbeg’ CarrMS, 1564 ‘Sheanbege’ F, 1576 ‘Shanebeg’ F, 1632 ‘Shanbegge al’ Shyanbegge’ Inq. < An Sián Beag “the small Sián [fairy mound, hillock]”.
    2. 1518 ‘In Ballyneeghan 30 acres’ Kildare Rental , ‘1540 ‘in dimidia villata de Balyrecan sunt 30 acre … in parco ibidem vocato Balene sunt 60 acre’ Crown Survey, 1564 ‘Ballarighan’ F = 1576 ‘Ballarighan’ F = 1632 ‘Ballyrighan’ Inq. < Baile Riacháin (?) “the town of Riachán (ainm pearsanta)”.
    3. 1540 ‘in dimidia villata de Balyrecan sunt 30 acre … in parco ibidem vocato Balene sunt 60 acre’ Crown Survey , 1549 ‘Balleninabege’ CarrMS, 1564 ‘Ballenebeg’ F = 1576 ‘Ballenebeg’ F = 1632 ‘Ballynabegg’ Inq. < Baile an Fheá Beag (??) “the town of the wood”.
    4. Ní léir suíomh do 1549 ‘Ballenesra’ CarrMS, 1564 ‘Ballenestraghe’ F , 1576 ‘Ballenestraghe’ F, 1632 ‘Ballynasragh’ Inq., 1632 ‘Ballynasraghe’ Inq. < Baile na Srath “the town of the swaths, river-meadows”.

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53.081, -7.2265latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1100c.
i Cúil Bennchair
Epscop Lugach
CGSH Iontráil: 295
1100c.
i Cuil Bennchair
CGSH Iontráil: 722, Foroinn: 99
1170c
Cúil Bendchuir a Muig Reicheat, hi Crích Hua Fhailge
remhfhocul
FOeng. Leathanach: 6
1170c
hi Cuil Bennchoir in Huib Failge
Notationes
FOeng. Leathanach: 220
1170c
do Chúil Bennchuir a Muig Rechet (i crich Hua Failge add.)
Remhfhocul
FOeng. Leathanach: 6
1170c
inghen Annadha ó Chúil Bhenncair
In placing the saint in Coolbanagher ..., the later martyrologists mistakenly borrowed the name of the church from the pedigree of Bishop Lughach, which follows ... Sineach in the corpus of geanealogies' Dict. Ir. S 564
FGorm. Leathanach: 162
1518-19
Cowlbeangher
Kildare Rent. Leathanach: 289
1549
Cowlbangher
Carrigan MS Imleabhar: 46, Leathanach: 97
1550
Cowlebencher
Offaly Survey Leathanach: 351
1551
Cowlbaughell
F Leathanach: 703
1551
Cowlbangher
F Leathanach: 896
1563
Colbane
F Leathanach: 446
1563
Colbane
F Leathanach: 498
1563
Colbane
F Leathanach: 498
1564
Colvanacre alias Colbanahore
F Leathanach: 612
1564
Colvanacre alias Colbanahore
F Leathanach: 612
1564
Colvanacre, the lands of
F Leathanach: 612
1564c
colvaneaker als colbanahore
Survey
1565c
Colbancher
Map (TCD)
1571
Colbane
F Leathanach: 1715
1576
Colbanhore
Robert Harpoll
F Leathanach: 2811
1576
Colvanacre alias Colbanahore
F Leathanach: 2838
1591
Coulbanchar alias Cowlebanger
Piers Hovenden
F Leathanach: 5695
1597
Coulebaniher
Tho. Lambyn
F Leathanach: 6077
1619
Colbane
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 15 J I
1621
Colbane
CPR Leathanach: 514
1627
Coolebannagher
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 1 C I
1630c.
ó Chúil Bennchuir
FNÉ Leathanach: 266
1632
Coolebanneher al' Coolebancher
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 13 C I
1632
Cowlebannogher
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 13 C I
1637
Colbane
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 23 C I
1645
Cuil–bennchuir
ASH Leathanach: 579
1650c.
i cCúil Bheannchuir
LGen. Alt: 733.12
1655
Coolebaner, Coolebanagher Castle
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: DS?
1659
Coolebansher
Cen. Leathanach: 503
1660c
Coolebanchor
BSD (La) Leathanach: 115
1838
Coolbanagher
BS:AL Leathanach: LA019,7
1838
Coolbanagher
[No date]
Map:AL Leathanach: LA019,7
1838
Coolbanagher
Stopford, Rev. G.:AL Leathanach: LA019,7
1838
Coolebaner
[Copy of DS 1758]
DS:AL Leathanach: LA019,7
1838
Coolbanagher
Cahill Co. Map:AL Leathanach: LA019,7
1838
Coolbanagher
HCons PR:AL  Leathanach: LA019,7
1838
Coolebannagher, Coolebannagher, Coolebancher
Inq. C I:AL Leathanach: LA019,7
1838
Coolebansher
DS Ref.:AL Leathanach: LA019,7
1838
Coolebancher
DS Map:AL Leathanach: LA019,7
1838
Coolebannegher, Cowlebannogher
Inq. C I:AL Leathanach: LA019,7
1838
Coolbanagher
HCSV:AL Leathanach: LA019,7
1838
Cuil beanncair
OD:AL Leathanach: LA019,7
1838
[Coolbanagher]
"…the ruins of Coolbanagher Church and Castle lie on the roadside and west of Coolbanagher Hill."
Desc. Rem.:AL Leathanach: LA019,7
1838
Coolbanagher
OD:AL Leathanach: LA019,7

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