An Cnapach/Nappagh

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townland

An Cnapach

genitive: an Chnapaigh

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(Irish)

Nappagh

(English)

Capitalise

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county

An Longfort/Longford

barony

Maigh Dumha/Moydow

civil parish

Ardach/Ardagh

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

the lumpy (field)
Ba í Achadh Cnapach, 'the lumpy field', bunfhoirm an logainm seo, mar atá le feiscint san fhianaise stairiúil luath, e.g. 1612 'Agheknappagh', 1629 'Aghaknappa', 1655 'Ahaknapagh'
English

the lumpy (field)
The original form of this placename was Achadh Cnapach, 'the lumpy field', as can be seen from the early historical evidence, e.g. 1612 'Agheknappagh', 1629 'Aghaknappa', 1655 'Ahaknapagh'

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53.6831, -7.76263latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1612	Agheknappagh	Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.1 Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1619-22	Agheneknappagh	CPR Leathanach: 533a Calendar of Patent Rolls of James I Bliain: 1603–23, Pubref: BÁC, 1966, Teideal iomlán: Irish Patent Rolls of James I: Facsimile of the Irish Record Commission's Calendar prepared prior to 1830
1629	Aghaknappa	Cotton Map Cotton Map
1634	Agheneknappagh	Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 11 Car.1 Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1655	Ahaknapagh	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	Aghacnappagh	Cen. Leathanach: 460 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
c1660	Aghaknapagh	BSD Leathanach: 143 Books of Survey and Distribution Bliain: 1660c
1668	Aghaknappagh	ASE Leathanach: 176 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
1685	Aghaknapa	Hib. Del. Hiberniæ Delineatio, William Petty Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Foilsitheoir: Irish University Press (1969)
1686	Aghaknapagh	CG Leathanach: 44b Abstracts of Grants of Lands...under The Commission of Grace...1684-1688 (ed. Hatchell, 1839) Bliain: 1684-88
1813	Nappagh	Edgeworth A map of the county of Longford, William Edgeworth (1813); 4 leathanach (W. Faden, Londain a d’fhoilsigh, 1814)
1813	Nappagh	Edgeworth A map of the county of Longford, William Edgeworth (1813); 4 leathanach (W. Faden, Londain a d’fhoilsigh, 1814)
1836	Nappogue	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1836	Nappogue	McCutchen, C.C.C.:AL McCutchen, C.C.C., finné in AL, An Longfort.
1836	Nappogue	Featherstone, J.:AL Featherstone, J.:AL
1836	Nappogue	Montgomery:AL Montgomery:AL
1836	Nappagh	Murray, Rev.:AL Murray, Rev.:AL
1836	Nappagh	Featherstone, Sir G.:AL Featherstone, Sir G.:AL
1836	Cnapach, “hilly or knolly land”	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	Nappagh	pl:AL Nóta nó leagan Gaeilge scríofa i bpeann luaidhe in AL/ Note or Irish form written in pencil in AL Bliain: 1838
1836	See Indexes for precedents q? Knappagh	Nóta:AL Nóta in AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks.
1908	Knapagh, Cnapach, “knolly land”	MacGivney Leathanach: 157 Place names of the County Longford. Correctly spelled in Irish and fully explained in English, with notes and illustrations by Rev. Joseph MacGivney
2008	napə	Áit. Fianaise áitiúil, ar théip go hiondúil, ar coimeád i gcartlann an Bhrainse Logainmneacha. Bliain: 1952-

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