BROWSE
townland
An Rinn Rua
genitive: na Rinne Rua
non-validated name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Rinroe
(English)

Glossary

English point, headland
rua, ruadh
English red; red place

Hierarchy

county

barony

civil parish

Centrepoint

53.7433, -7.46028latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1192 - 1216
“..terra de Glyn et de Rinros et de Ardbachelin...”
fch. an chéad iontráil thuas maidir le lonnú Rinross.
Reg. Tristernagh Leathanach: 106
1200 -1224
“..ecclesias de...Glyn, cum pertinentiis, scilicet, de Glin et de Rinros et Ardbachel...”
Ach McNamee, JACAS II, uimh. 9, l. 6: “The editor suggests Rinroe in the parish of Granard; but this is scarcely admissible...Rinross must have lain somewhere in the parish of Ardagh..”.
Reg. Tristernagh Leathanach: 5, 6
1609
Runroe (Melaghlen McBrian, heir to Brian McShane Vane)
CPR Leathanach: 139a
1620
Rynroe (Edward Dowdall)
CPR Leathanach: 538a
1629
Rinroe
Cotton Map
1654-56
Pinroe
botún trascríofa is dócha
CS X Leathanach: 45
1655
Rinroe
DS
1655
Red Bog of Rinroe
DS
1659
Rinroe
Cen.
c.1660
Rinroe
BSD Leathanach: 159
1671
Kinroe or Rinroe
ASE Leathanach: 108
1750
Rinro
CGn. Leathanach: 146.5.96419
1813
Rinroe
Edgeworth
1836
Rhinroe
BS:AL
1836
Rinroe
Edgeworth Map (AL)
1836
Rinn ruadh, “i.e. red point of land”
OD:AL
1836
Rinroe
DS:AL
1908
Rinn Rúadh, “red point”
MacGivney Leathanach: 196
1969
An Rinn Rua
Cártaí Móra
2003
An Rinn Rua
Moladh Nóta: [Firry - sa bhf.]
2007
rinˈroː
Áit.

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