Cluain Caoil/Cloonkeel

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townland

Cluain Caoil

genitive: Chluain Caoil

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(Irish)

Cloonkeel

(English)

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Glossary

caol

English narrow; a narrow; marshy stream

cluain, cluaine

English meadow, pasture

Hierarchy

county

An Longfort/Longford

barony

Maigh Dumha/Moydow

civil parish

Cill na Sí/Killashee

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

pasture of (the) marshy stream, marsh?
Tá bríonna éagsúla leis an ainmfhocal caol i logainmneacha; cf. www.dil.ie s.v. cáel II (e): 'a stream flowing through a marsh'.
Cf. bf An Caol, par. Chill Ghlas
English

pasture of (the) marshy stream, marsh?
The noun caol has several meanings in placenames; cf. www.dil.ie s.v. cáel II (e): 'a stream flowing through a marsh'.
Cf. bf An Caol/Keel, par. Kilglass

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53.7055, -7.94254latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1813	Cloonkeel	Edgeworth A map of the county of Longford, William Edgeworth (1813); 4 leathanach (W. Faden, Londain a d’fhoilsigh, 1814)
1837c.	Cloonkeel	BS:AL Imleabhar: C99, Leathanach: 15 Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1837c.	Cloonkeel	Edgeworth Map:AL A map of the county of Longford, William Edgeworth (1813) ex AL
1837c.	Cluain Caol, 'The Slender Deceit'	Quinn, E.:AL Finné in AL
1837c.	Cluain Caol, 'narrow lawn or meadow'	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
1837c.	Clun Caoil	pl:AL Nóta nó leagan Gaeilge scríofa i bpeann luaidhe in AL/ Note or Irish form written in pencil in AL Bliain: 1838
1908	Cluain Chaol 'narrow lawn'	MacGivney Leathanach: 74 Place names of the County Longford. Correctly spelled in Irish and fully explained in English, with notes and illustrations by Rev. Joseph MacGivney
2007	klɑnˈkiːl	Áit. Fianaise áitiúil, ar théip go hiondúil, ar coimeád i gcartlann an Bhrainse Logainmneacha. Bliain: 1952-

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