BROWSE
townland
Cluain Saileach Thiar
genitive: Chluain Saileach Thiar
(Irish)
Clonsilla West
(English)

Glossary

cluain, cluaine
English meadow, pasture
sail, saileach
English willow-(tree)

Centrepoint

52.7096, -6.28479latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1601
Clonsillagh (Edm. M’Arte)
F Alt: 6549
1618
Clonsilla (Dion. or Donagh O’Dale)
CPR Leathanach: 403
1618
Clonsillagh (Owen McTeige Cavanagh)
CPR Leathanach: 366
1618
Clonsillagh (Thady McCahir and Owen McCahir)
CPR Leathanach: 390
1654
Clonsillagh (Thos. Esmond)
CS (LG) Leathanach: 15
1655–57
Colleshilla
DS
1655–7
Cooleshillagh
DS
1660
Cooleshillagh (Thos. Esmond)
BSD (LG) Leathanach: 6
1667
Coolenesillagh (Duke of Albemarle)
ASE Leathanach: 144
1685
Cooleshillagh
Hib. Del.
1738
Clonsillagh
CGn. Imleabhar: 90, Leathanach: 439, Uimhir: 65429
1840
Clonsilla
BS:AL
1840
Cluain saileach ‘lawn or meadow of the sallows’
OD:AL

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