Raithneachán/Ranaghan

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townland

Raithneachán

genitive: Raithneacháin

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(Irish)

Ranaghan

(English)

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Hierarchy

county

An Longfort/Longford

barony

Gránard/Granard

civil parish

Mainistir Leathrátha/Abbeylara

Centrepoint

53.7587, -7.42804latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1629	----- [istigh le Larha]	Cotton Map Cotton Map
1631	Rynaghan	Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 6 Car.1 Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1655	Ranaghan	DS Down Survey (Barony Maps - Hiberniae Regnum, 1654, cóipeanna a rinne an tSuirbhéireacht Ordanáis ó na bunchóipeanna i bPáras, 1908) Bliain foilsithe: 1655-7
1659	Rinnaghan	Cen. A census of Ireland, circa 1659: with supplementary material from the poll money ordinances (1660-1661), eag. S. Pender (1939) Bliain foilsithe: 1939, Údar: S. Pender, Áit foilsithe: Dublin
c.1660	Ranaghan	BSD Leathanach: 157 Books of Survey and Distribution Bliain: 1660c
1673	Ranaghan	ASE Leathanach: 232 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
1813	Fernsborough	Edgeworth A map of the county of Longford, William Edgeworth (1813); 4 leathanach (W. Faden, Londain a d’fhoilsigh, 1814)
1813	Rhenaghan	Edgeworth A map of the county of Longford, William Edgeworth (1813); 4 leathanach (W. Faden, Londain a d’fhoilsigh, 1814)
1836	Rhanagan	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1836	Rhenaghan	Edgeworth Map (AL) Edgeworth Map:AL - Longford & Roscommon
1836	Ranaghan	DS:AL Down Survey (1656-1658), foinse in Ainmleabhar na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks
1836	Rynaghan	Inq. C I:AL Inquisition de chuid aimsir Charles I in AL Bliain: 1830/1840idí
1836	Raitneachan or Rathnachan, “ferny land, filicetum”	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	see other Cos for precedents	Nóta:AL Nóta in AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks.
1836	...It contains a demesne called Fernsborough...	Desc. Rem.:AL Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40
1908	Renaghan, Raithneachán, “a fern shrubbery”	MacGivney Leathanach: 193 Place names of the County Longford. Correctly spelled in Irish and fully explained in English, with notes and illustrations by Rev. Joseph MacGivney
2007	ˈranəhən	Áit. Fianaise áitiúil, ar théip go hiondúil, ar coimeád i gcartlann an Bhrainse Logainmneacha. Bliain: 1952-

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