BROWSE
townland
An Daingean
genitive: an Daingin
(Irish)
Daggan
(English)

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54.0272, -7.35906latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1609
Dangen
MEC Leathanach: 4.19
1610
Dungen, 1 poll
CPR Leathanach: 163a
1636
Dumgen al' Dungen, Dungenbegg, Dungenmore
Inq. Ult.
1641
Denan
Dep. 1641 Leathanach: 56
1642c
Dyngan
Dep. 1641 Leathanach: 9a
1652
Deingen
Comm. Surv.
1660c
Deggen
BSD (Ca) Leathanach: 254
1660c
Deggen
BSD (Ca)
1700c
Degginlegert
sic
Carvaghs Leathanach: 15
1761
Deggan
Freeholders (Ca)
1836
Deagan
BS:AL Leathanach: Ca011,43
1836
Deggin
Printed List 1790:AL Leathanach: Ca011,43
1836
Daggan
Lanesborough Survey 1809: Leathanach: Ca011,43
1836
Deigin
CM:AL Leathanach: Ca011,43
1836
Deingen
Commonwealth Survey:AL Leathanach: Ca011,43
1836
Daingean
"hard" [pl];
pl:AL Leathanach: Ca011,43
1836
Daingean, 'a fort or fortress, a fastness'
OD:AL Leathanach: Ca011,43
1836
Daggan
"Daggan recte Dangan" [OD Nóta];
OD:AL Leathanach: Ca011,43
1836
[Daggan]
"there is a fort in the N.W. of the townland and 150 links N.W. of this fort is a trig. station" [Desc. Rem.];
Desc. Rem.:AL Leathanach: Ca011,43
1836
Deggan or Daggan
"Ca 59 ‘Corruptio nominum locorum. Every ng is pronounced here like gh guttural, and there is a townland in the parish of Castleterra called Daingean, a fastness, which custom has established as Deggan or Daggan — a name which in the west and South of Ireland would be made Dangan… As use will render anomalies and unphilosophical expressions inviolable in the spoken and written dialect of a people so will it, with equal authority, establish corrupt names in topographical nomenclature"
LSO (Ca)

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