Cluain Cirr/Cloonker

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Cluain Cirr

genitive: Chluain Cirr

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(Irish)

Cloonker

(English)

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Glossary

cluain, cluaine

English meadow, pasture

Hierarchy

county

An Longfort/Longford

barony

Maigh Dumha/Moydow

civil parish

Maigh Dumha/Moydow

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

pasture of —
Ní léir brí an dara heilimint anseo. Cf. www.dil.ie s.v. cerr (aid.), 'crooked'
English

pasture of —
The meaning of the second element is unclear here. Cf. www.dil.ie s.v. cerr (adj.), 'crooked'

Centrepoint

53.666, -7.8099latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1612	Clonekyre	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
1621	Clonkirr (James McIrriell Farrall)	CPR Leathanach: 490b 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	Clonkirr	Cotton Map Cotton Map
1636	Clonkarr (Roger’ Ferrall)	Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 20 Car.1 Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1655	Cloneky	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	Clonkirr	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	Cloneky	BSD Leathanach: 142 Books of Survey and Distribution Bliain: 1660c
1667	Trilligmore alias Trilligpatricke, McDonogh and Cloncarr [?]	ASE Leathanach: 115 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
1699	Clonkirr (Robert Ferrall)	Ir. Jacob. Leathanach: 124 Simms, J. G. eag. (1960) 'Irish Jacobites; Lists from TCD MS N.1.3.' in Analecta Hibernica 22 (13-230)
1778	Clonker (Rd. Mr. Jessop)	T&S Leathanach: 241 Taylor & Skinner, Maps of the Roads of Ireland Surveyed 1777. Foilsiodh an leabhar seo i 1778. Bliain: 1778, Pubref: leabhar de mhapaí
1811	Cloonkirr	CGn. Imleabhar: 638.421.442528 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1813	Clonker	Edgeworth A map of the county of Longford, William Edgeworth (1813); 4 leathanach (W. Faden, Londain a d’fhoilsigh, 1814)
1813	Clonker	Edgeworth A map of the county of Longford, William Edgeworth (1813); 4 leathanach (W. Faden, Londain a d’fhoilsigh, 1814)
1836	Clonker	BS:AL Imleabhar: C109, Leathanach: 3 Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1836	Clonker	Rev. W Armstrong:AL Rev. W Armstrong:AL
1836	Cloonker	Rector of Moydow:AL (Lo) Rector of Moydow, finné in AL, Co. Lú / witness in Odnance Survey Parish Namebooks, Co. Louth.
1836	Cloneky	DS:AL Down Survey (1656-1658), foinse in Ainmleabhar na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks
1836	Cluain Ceir, 'Kerr's 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
1836	A giant's grave. Here-the giant Ker.	pl:AL Nóta nó leagan Gaeilge scríofa i bpeann luaidhe in AL/ Note or Irish form written in pencil in AL Bliain: 1838
1836	Clonker	Edgeworth Map (AL) Edgeworth Map:AL - Longford & Roscommon
1908	Cluain Ceir, “Ker’s meadow – there was buried here a giant whose grave measures 15 feet long, and the giant’s name was Ceir, Anglicised Ker. The place is now called Cloonker (recté Cluainceir)”	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
2008	klonˈker	Áit. Fianaise áitiúil, ar théip go hiondúil, ar coimeád i gcartlann an Bhrainse Logainmneacha. Bliain: 1952-

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