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Eachanach
genitive: Eachanaigh
(Irish)
Aghanagh
(English)
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54.0437, -8.35202latitude, longitude
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Historical references
908 |
Echainech
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Trip. Life Leathanach: I 144
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908 |
Echenach
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Trip. Life Leathanach: I 328
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1276 |
go hechenach
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ARÉ Leathanach: iii 422
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1306 |
Atanagh
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CDI Leathanach: 1302-7 (224)
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1584 |
Aghanagh
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Exch. E:Wood-Martin I Leathanach: 388
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1584 |
Aghanagh
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Inq. E: Wood-Martin I Leathanach: 400
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1584 |
Aghanagh
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Inq. E: Wood-Martin I Leathanach: 401
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1585 |
Balliaghenneagh
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CBC Leathanach: 124
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1585 |
Aghnagh?
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F Leathanach: 4686
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1586 |
Achanaghe
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F Leathanach: 4922
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1603 |
Achanagh
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CPR Leathanach: 16b
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1616 |
Aghanagh
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CPR Leathanach: 313a
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1619 |
the rect. Or church of Aghanagh
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CPR Leathanach: 406a
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1655‒7 |
Athehanagh, Aghanagh
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1659 |
Achanagh
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Cen. Leathanach: 605
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1660c |
Aghanagh
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BSD Leathanach: 105
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1685c |
Athehanagh
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1749 |
Aughana
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Cen. of Elphin Leathanach: 474
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1749 |
Aughanaugh
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Cen. of Elphin Leathanach: 475
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1819 |
Aughanough
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1825 |
Aughana
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1836 |
Ehenachis now Aughanagh
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LSO (Sl) Leathanach: 185
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1836 |
Is pronounced in Irish Achaineach (Paráiste Achaineach); this is the common pronunciation, but they say that the correct name is Achainígh (Athchuinne) meaning a prayer or petition. It is said that when St. Maine was building the old Monastery of Aughanagh, O’Rourke, Prince of Breifny, came to annoy the Saint and destroy his work. He advanced as far as the Ford on a little stream that flows fromTobar Maine, near the old building. The Saint, perceiving this, prayed that he might not be able to pass the Ford, and that if a man of his name should ever cross it he might not survive twelve months. His prayer was heard, and ever since it is believed that an O’Rourke never crosses the fird without dieing in a short time afterwards (see Name Book p.36, where the particulars are told as remembered by the people). From this prayer the place was called Athchuinne according to traditional etymology.
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LSO (Sl) Leathanach: 155‒
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1836 |
Aughanagh
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BS:AL Leathanach: SL003,1
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1836 |
Aughanagh "See page 1" [dúch, tagairt do p.Aghanagh]
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BS:AL Leathanach: Sl003,4
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1836 |
Ahana
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1836 |
Ahanagh
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1836 |
Aughanough
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1836 |
Aughana
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1836 |
Near the centre of the townland there is a graveyard, the ruins of an old church, a remarkable ford called “O’Roark’s Ford” and a well called “Tubber Mania’”
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1836 |
Aghanagh
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1836 |
Athehanagh
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1836 |
Aghanagh ‘see Co. Book’
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1836 |
Aghanagh "(See Ph. Book)" [pl]
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1836 |
Achaineach
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1836 |
Each-aineach
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1836 |
Ahahannagh
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1836 |
Augh-a-na “a short prayer or petition”
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1836 |
Achaineach ‘Common name’
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1836 |
Ath an:aighe
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1836 |
Athchuinne ‘1st a short in [parish] name’
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1836 |
p.achaineach - St Manny built it ... vide page 36 - from his praying the place got name Áchanaighe ... Achanee is only a yoke of theirs
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1836 |
Aghannagh
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1836 |
The Ford is still called O’Rourke’s Ford. St. Maine’s Day is not remembered. They say it falls some time in August. This Parish must be the “Each-aineach, in regione mepotum Olildae” of the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick. It is said that as O’Rourke was coming to annoy the Saint, his Bell began to ring spontaneously (potius divinitus) to give notice to the Saint and his monks of the approaching danger, but the man who carried the bell to it that the only help he asked of it was to hold its tongue, lest O’Rourke might discover by ringing the bell where they were. Immediately the tongue fell from the bell. Part of this bell is said to be in Leyny Barony with a family of the McGinaans (Maginaans); (in pronunciation a as in father)
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LSO (Sl) Leathanach: 155-
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1844 |
Eachanach
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Hy Fiach. Leathanach: (léirscáil)
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1910 |
"achanach; Lc. ii. 489, .i. Echanach, Echainech, q.v.; Aghanagh, b. Tirerril, Sligo.
echainech; d. Echainiuch; n. Echenach, A. 18 b, 15 a; place of Bps. Maine and Geintene in d. Elphin, C. 399; d. Echainuch la Uu Ailella, Tl. 144; Echeanach, Aghanagh, p. and tl. in b. Tirerrill, Sli., on W. side of L. Arrow, Fy. 490, Fm. iii. 426, Ct. 143, 267, Ci., Con. 21 b; Eachanach, Fy. 490; Cs. 206 has ""Ech-enach .i. equorum locus vel pastus."
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