BROWSE
townland
Coillte na Sceallán
genitive: Choill na Sceallán
non-validated name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Kiltynaskellan
(English)

Glossary

coill, coillidh, coillte, coille
English wood

Explanatory note

Centrepoint

54.0589, -7.62319latitude, longitude
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Archival records

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Historical references

1609
keilnaskellan
MEC
1611
Kilteneskelane
CPR
1615
Ardlogher & Killeneskellan estimat' 1 pol'
sic, 4km óna chéile ach cuntas ar a gcuid foranna in éineacht freisin
Inq. Ult.
1630
Killeneskealan
Inq. Ult.
1652
Kilteneskelane
Comm. Surv.
1654
(Mt. of Mullaghmore)
DS
1654
(Protestant Lands)
DS
1660c
Killiniskellane
BSD (Ca)
1663
Killeskellan
HMR (Ca)
1700c
Killynaskellan
sic
Carvaghs
1836
Kiltynaskellan
OD:AL Leathanach: Ca029,26
1836
Coillte na sceallán, 'wood of the small nuts'
OD:AL Leathanach: Ca029,26
1836
Kiltynaskelan
Co. Table:AL Leathanach: Ca029,26
1836
Skealen alias Kiltynaskealen
BS:AL Leathanach: Ca029,26
1836
Killynaskellan
Co. List 1790:AL Leathanach: Ca029,26
1836
Kilnaskillen
Farnham, Lord:AL Leathanach: Ca029,26
1836
Killynaskealan
CM:AL Leathanach: Ca029,26
1836
Kilteneskelane
"!!good" [dúch];
Commonwealth Survey:AL Leathanach: Ca029,26
1836
[Kiltynaskellan]
"548 acres of which 234 are cultivated, 288 of uncultivated heathy mountain and rough and flooded pasture and 26 acres of bog" [Desc. Rem.]
Desc. Rem.:AL
1921
Shkaylin
Walker

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