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An Mhionchoill
genitive: na Mionchoille
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Minkill
(English)
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"Pinkman Mion-Choill = Small wood or underwood. O’Donovan states, in his letters, that this name was made Mealwood, locally – a corrupt translation, he says, of the Irish form Mion-Choill. It is written Minkile in an Inquisition taken at Jamestown 19th October 1631. "
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"Arch. Inventory Fulacht fia (site of). On the left bank of the river Shannon on the line of the N4 (27). Rath. On the SW-facing slope of a hill (114). Rath. On top of a ridge (114). Rath. On top of a ridge (115). "
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"LSO: In this Parish there are two remarkable instances of vulgar peasant translations of names of Townlands, and exactly similar to Caulfield in Cavan, viz., Sheffield and Mealwood [Minkill]. … The latter is Mionn-Choill (Lt. L. decided that the alteration, tho’ correct, would be too violent) and really means Small-wood or Underwood; but because the words Min, Meal and Mionn, Small, communited are so similar, the peasantry have taken it in their stupid numbskulls to translate it Mealwood! And in this the peasantry are followed by the gentry, who know nothing of either name. Indeed the High Constable was so puzzled at this name that he has given us his authority for it as Male-Wood (Meal) a name which will puzzle Botanists in half a century hence! (106/219-107/219) "
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1622 |
Menkill
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CPR Leathanach: 514b
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1631 |
Menkill
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Inq. Leathanach: 174
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1660c |
Meinekeile
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BSD Leathanach: 56
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1715 |
Minikill
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CGn. Leathanach: 16.171.7203
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1836 |
Mealwood
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1836 |
Minkill
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1836 |
Coill-na-minnabh
'the meal wood'
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1836 |
Malewood
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1836 |
Minehul
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1836 |
Minkill
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1836 |
Mionn-choill
'meal-wood'
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1836 |
Mionn-choill
'small wood'
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1836 |
Minkill
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1836 |
[Minkill]
"…contains…a fort."
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