BROWSE
civil parishtownland
Cluain Caocháin
genitive: Chluain Caocháin
validated name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Clonkeehan
(English)

Glossary

cluain, cluaine
English meadow, pasture

Hierarchy

county

barony

civil parish

Centrepoint

53.9068, -6.49261latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1301
Clonkethan
CPlR Leathanach: 237
1431
Clonleachy
Reg. Swayne Leathanach: 134
1431
Clonleachan
Reg. Swayne Leathanach: 137
1655
Clonkeghan
CS X Leathanach: 106 108
1655
Clonkeaghan
CS X Leathanach: 101 105
1655
Clonkehan Clankehan
DS
1655
Clankehan
DS
1658
Clonkeghan
Inq. LP Leathanach: 29
1660c
Clonkehan Clonkehane
BSD Leathanach: 224
1660c
Clonkehane
BSD Leathanach: 224
1669
Clonkeghan
ASE Leathanach: 210
1683
Cloukehan
Hib. Del.
1777
Clonkeehan
T&S
1833
Clonkeen
GJWarrant: AL
1836
Clonkeehan
AL
1836
Clonkeehan
Bar. Cons.:AL
1836
Clonkeean
HCSV:AL
1836
Clúan caochan
pl:AL
1836
cluain caochan
OK & OC:AL
1836
Keehan's lawn
OD:AL
1836
Clonkeehan Parish...
called in Irish cluan caochan... the place where St. Bridget, on her passage to Faughart, prayed to God to make her blind (caoch) ... In the townland of clonkeehan was an old cluan called Tea'pull Chluan Caochan
LSO Leathanach: 200

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