BROWSE
townland
Cluain Cairín
genitive: Chluain Cairín
non-validated name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Clooncarreen
(English)

Glossary

cluain, cluaine
English meadow, pasture

Hierarchy

county

barony

civil parish

Explanatory note

  • English

    pasture of (the) small weir, river crossing?

Centrepoint

53.8516, -7.852latitude, longitude
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Historical references

Nóta
Nóta
n/a
"Pinkman: Cluain-Caithrín = Meadow land of the little ‘Caher’ or stone fort."
Nóta
"Arch. Survey Rath. Towards the top of the E-facing slope of a low drumlin. "
Nóta
1655
Cloonecarine
DS
c1660
Cloonecarrine
BSD Leathanach: 19
1667
Clonecarrene
ASE Leathanach: 136
1685
Clooncarin
Hib. Del.
1800
?Clooncerne (Reynolds/Carbreavy)
Uachtanna, Féach Breifne 1966 Leathanach: 150
1834
Clooncarn
TAB Leathanach: 13, 14, Nóta: (61:16/16) recap.
1836
Clooncarn
Rec. Name:AL
1836
Clooncarne
BS:AL
1836
Clooncarn
CM:AL
1836
Clooncarne, Clooncarn
Hyde, Rev. A.:AL
1836
Clooncarn
HCons PR:AL 
1836
Cluain Carn, 'the deceiving heap'
Quinn, E.:AL
1836
Clooncarne
Faris. A.:AL
1836
Cloonecarrine
DS Ref.:AL
1836
Cloonecarine
DS Map:AL
1836
Clu//n caithri//n
pl:AL
1836
Cluain caithrín
cloon of little Caher, lawn or meadow of the little stone fort'; "Cluain a' chairn" [scriosta]
OD:AL
1836
Clooncarree//n
OD:AL
1836
[Clooncarreen]
"The townland contains some rocky pasture, overlying limestone and a fort in the southern end."
Desc. Rem.:AL

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