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Corracaboon
(English)
Centrepoint
53.9508, -7.86098latitude, longitude
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"Pinkman: Corr-a’-chabúin = Hill of the ignorant fellow. Cábún means a crowing hen, and, in a figurative sense, a whistling woman, or a low ignorant fellow."
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1834 |
Curracaboone
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TAB Leathanach: 12, Nóta: (61:16/16) recap.
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1836 |
Carraghcaubaun
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1836 |
Carrowcaboon
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1836 |
Corracapoon
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1836 |
Corragh caubaun
'a white capon'
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1836 |
Caracaubawn
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1836 |
Coracaboon
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1836 |
Cor a cabu//in
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1836 |
Cor
'is sometimes a pit or hollow'
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1836 |
Cor a chabúin
'the capon's hill'
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1836 |
Corracaboon
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1836 |
[Corracaboon]
"'Corraghcaubawn' is held by the tenure of paying a white capon annually … 'Carrowcaboon Bridge' is on the road from Mohill to Ballinamore."
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