Coillte na Sionnach/Kiltynashinnagh

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townland

Coillte na Sionnach

genitive: Choillte na Sionnach

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(Irish)

Kiltynashinnagh

(English)

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Other names

Foxwood

local name (What is this?)

(English)

Glossary

coill, coillidh, coillte, coille

English wood

sionnach, sionnaigh, seannach

English fox

Hierarchy

county

Liatroim/Leitrim

barony

Carraig Álainn/Carrigallen

civil parish

Uachtar Achaidh/Oughteragh

electoral division

Gréach Shleasa/Greaghglass

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

the woods of the foxes
Coill na Mada Rua, 'the wood of the foxes', ainm eile ar an áit seo, de réir na fianaise stairiúla
English

the woods of the foxes
The historical evidence shows that Coill na Mada Rua, 'the wood of the foxes' (mada rua = sionnach), was another name for this place

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54.0637, -7.87651latitude, longitude

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Historical references

		Nóta Nóta eolais
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	Cf: p: Kiltubbrid; b: Leitrim	Nóta Nóta eolais
n/a	"Pinkman: Coillte-na-Sionnach = Wood of the foxes, a fox cover. "	Nóta Nóta eolais
1655	Killnemadaroe	DS Down Survey (Barony Maps - Hiberniae Regnum, 1654, cóipeanna a rinne an tSuirbhéireacht Ordanáis ó na bunchóipeanna i bPáras, 1908) Bliain foilsithe: 1655-7
1660c	Killnemadroe [Shrinney]	BSD Leathanach: 10 Books of Survey and Distribution Bliain: 1660c
<s>1667<s>	<s>?Coolenesincagh<s>	ASE Leathanach: 182:16 Abstracts of Grants of Lands..under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, A.D.1666-1684 (Appendix to Fifteenth Annual Report from the Commissioners of Public Records of Ireland, 45-280; 1825) Bliain: 1666-84
1668	Killnemaddarow	ASE Leathanach: 161:34 Abstracts of Grants of Lands..under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, A.D.1666-1684 (Appendix to Fifteenth Annual Report from the Commissioners of Public Records of Ireland, 45-280; 1825) Bliain: 1666-84
1685	Killnemadera	Hib. Del. Hiberniæ Delineatio, William Petty Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Foilsitheoir: Irish University Press (1969)
1817	*Killymaudaroe	Larkin (Li) Grand Jury Map of Leitrim
1836	Kiltinashinnagh	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1836	Kiltinashinnagh	Stacke, Capt.:AL Stacke, Capt., faisnéiseoir in AL / informant in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks.
1836	Kiltynasinagh	HCSR:AL HCSR, foinse in AL / source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook
1836	Coillte na sionnach, woods of the foxes'	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
1836	Kiltynashinnagh "The general appellation in the country is 'Kilnamaddyroe'." [Nóta OD]	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
1852	?Foxwood (Knott)	Leitrim Vot. 1852 Leathanach: 461 McNiffe, L. (1980-81) 'Leitrim voters in Oughteragh and Cloonclare in 1852' in Bréifne, imleabhar V, uimhir 20, lgh. 459 - 467.

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