Dún Canann/Duncannon

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Dún Canann

genitive: Dhún Canann

(Irish)

Duncannon

(English)

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Glossary

dún, dúnaibh

English fort

Hierarchy

county

Loch Garman/Wexford

barony

Síol Bhroin/Shelburne

civil parish

Paróiste San Séamas & Dún Bróithe/Saint James and Dunbrody

Centrepoint

52.2242, -6.93166latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1180–3	Dunmechanan	Chart. Mary's Leathanach: 153 Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey I-II (ed. Gilbert, 1884)
1180–83	Dunmechanan	Chart. Mary's Leathanach: 152 Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey I-II (ed. Gilbert, 1884)
1180–3	Dunmeshanan	Chart. Mary's Leathanach: 158 Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey I-II (ed. Gilbert, 1884)
1233	Duncanan	Chart. Mary's Leathanach: 180 Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey I-II (ed. Gilbert, 1884)
1233	Dunkanon	Chart. Mary's Leathanach: 180 Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey I-II (ed. Gilbert, 1884)
1284	Doncainan	Hore Imleabhar: III, Leathanach: 79 Philip H. Hore, ed., History of the town and county of Wexford I-VI (1900-1911)
1538–39	Donncannan (Sherloke)	Hore Imleabhar: III, Leathanach: 120 Philip H. Hore, ed., History of the town and county of Wexford I-VI (1900-1911)
1550	Ballyhake and Dunkanan	Hore Imleabhar: III, Leathanach: 248 Philip H. Hore, ed., History of the town and county of Wexford I-VI (1900-1911)
1590	Dunkannane	Hore Imleabhar: IV, Leathanach: 22 Philip H. Hore, ed., History of the town and county of Wexford I-VI (1900-1911)
1617	Duncannon, Duncanon	Inq. Lag. Alt: 9 JI Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1624	Duncannon (Ichingham)	Inq. Lag. Alt: 55 JI Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1638	Duncanon	Inq. Lag. Alt: 134 C I Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1650c	Dún Canáin	SRómh. Leathanach: 25 An Síogaí Rómhánach, Five seventeenth-century political poems, C. O'Rahilly (1952, 1977)
1654	Duncannon	CS (LG) Leathanach: 188 Civil Survey IX. County of Wexford (Simington ed., 1953) Bliain: 1654
1655	Duncannon Fort	DS Down Survey (Barony Maps - Hiberniae Regnum, 1654, cóipeanna a rinne an tSuirbhéireacht Ordanáis ó na bunchóipeanna i bPáras, 1908) Bliain foilsithe: 1655-7
1660	Duncanan	BSD (LG) Leathanach: 22 Books of Survey and Distribution (Co. Wexford)
1816	Duncannon	Gill (Wexford) Grand Jury Map of Wexford, Valentine Gill, 1811 & 1816 Bliain: 1811 & 1816
1838	Dún Conáin ‘Conan’s dun or fort’	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
1840	Duncannan	Book of Lands:AL Book of Lands, foinse in AL / source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks

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