Corr an Scafaigh/Corrascoffy

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Hierarchy

townland

Corr an Scafaigh

genitive: Chorr an Scafaigh

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(Irish)

Corrascoffy

(English)

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Glossary

corr

English round hill, pointed hill, hollow; pointed, conspicuous, odd

Hierarchy

county

Liatroim/Leitrim

barony

Maothail/Mohill

civil parish

Maothail/Mohill

Explanatory note

English

the round hill of the bare patch of rocks?

Centrepoint

53.8856, -7.91325latitude, longitude

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Historical references

		Nóta Nóta eolais
		Nóta Nóta eolais
n/a	"Pinkman Coradh-scathfaidh = Scoffey’s weir. The Down Survey writes the name Correscaffe and Corascaffe. The townland lies along the River Eslin, in the Parish of Bornacoola. There is a bridge there, now called Corrascoffey Bridge. Formerly there were two eel weirs at this place."	Nóta Nóta eolais
n/a	"Príomhshruth Éireann: “Tráth a thig le teann go Corr an Scafaigh.” (23:77) Éamonn Ó Tuathail, Éigse VI: Corra Sgabhthaidh, Corrascoffy, in the p. of Mohill. The true form is uncertain. The final vowel in Corra may be part of the article or an epenthetic vowel. Father Connellan proposes Corr-ros Cobhthaigh(281)."	Nóta Nóta eolais
1655	Correscaffe	DS Down Survey (Barony Maps - Hiberniae Regnum, 1654, cóipeanna a rinne an tSuirbhéireacht Ordanáis ó na bunchóipeanna i bPáras, 1908) Bliain foilsithe: 1655-7
1667	Corregaffey	ASE Leathanach: 136 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
1794	Corra Sgabhthaidh	'The River Shannon': Ó Tuathail 'The River Shannon Poetically Described by Michael Brennan', ed. É. Ó Tuathail, in Éigse, VI: 3 (Dublin, 1951), 193–240.
1834	Corscoffy	TAB Leathanach: 27, Nóta: (61:16/16) recap. Tithe Composition (Applotment) Book (imleabhair lámhscríofa ó c. 1830 atá ar coimeád sa Chartlann Náisiúnta) Bliain: 1824–40, Nóta: Go minic, tugtar ainm an pharóiste, nó eolas eile i gcolún na nótaí.
1836	Corrischophy	Rec. Name:AL Received Name in Ainmleabhar na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis (AL) Bliain: 1830/1840idí
1836	Corroscoffy	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1836	Corrisckoffy	Faris. A.:AL Faris. A.:AL
1836	Currascoffy	HCons PR:AL HCons. PR:AL Bliain: 1838
1836	Corriscoffy	S&V:AL Report from the Select Committee on the Survey and Valuation of Ireland (1824) in AL Bliain: 1830-40
1836	Cor a sgafaidh	pl:AL Nóta nó leagan Gaeilge scríofa i bpeann luaidhe in AL/ Note or Irish form written in pencil in AL Bliain: 1838
1836	Cor easa Cobhthaigh 'round hill of the coffey'	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	Corrascoffy	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

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