"Pinkman: Tulaigh-Bhradáin nó Tulaigh-Ui-Bhradáin. Compare “loch Bradain in Muintir Eolais.” (Hogan 495). Braden from the Irish Bradan, a salmon. Hence the surnames O’Bradan, O’Bradane, O’Bradden and Bradan, anglicised into Salmon and Fisher .The Clann Bradán were a branch of the Conmaicne maighe Rein (Hogan, Onom. 236). It would appear that some members of this family adopted the form O’Bárdán. So they are written in some of the Annals. Other writers seem to think that the Ó’Bárdáin was an earlier form of the name O’Bradán (Dr. Mac Neill, Clare Island Survey). The Annals of Ulster under 1369 have the form O’Bárdáin; while the almost contemporary Book of Ballymote has the form Clann Bradáin, Clann Bradán. The surname Braden was to be found around Mohill up to very recent times. The townland lies beside Mohill town."

"Arch. Survey Holy well (site, possible). ‘Tober Ronan (Site of)’. On a W-facing slope. Marked on the 1st and current eds. Of the OS 6-inch map. There is no record of veneration and it is not visble at ground level (191). "

'the salmon mount'

'Bradan's, or salmon's hill'