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An Chraobh
genitive: na Craoibhe
(Irish)
Creeve
(English)
Centrepoint
53.7349, -7.71818latitude, longitude
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Historical references
1602 |
Crive (Gillpatrick M’Fergus)
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F Leathanach: 6699
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1604 |
Cryv
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Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 1 Jac.1
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1604 |
Kryeghe?
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Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 1 Jac.1
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1612 |
Crivye
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Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.1
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1621 |
Creeve
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CPR Leathanach: 533b
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1629 |
Creeveh
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1654-56 |
Criue in the barony of Longford
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CS X Leathanach: 47
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1655 |
Cvero
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1659 |
Criue
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1660c |
Crew
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BSD (Lo) Leathanach: 176
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1667 |
Creine? [fch. Creenagh]
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ASE Leathanach: 145
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1813 |
Creeve
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1835 |
Creeve
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1835 |
Creeve
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1835 |
Craobh, “The Sproutor Bough”
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1835 |
Crivye
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1835 |
Craobh, “a large branching tree”
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1835 |
...there is also a great quantity of plantation on the N.W. extremity
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1908 |
Crieve, Craobh, “bush land. A large spreading tree – O’ Donovan”
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MacGivney Leathanach: 92
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1939 |
“..na Craoibhe...”, “..ó’n Chraoibh...”
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Ar Aghaidh, Iúl 1938 (Donn Piatt) Leathanach: 7
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1941 |
This place [Craebh-Rois-da-Charn] must have been named from the two carns on Sliabh Cairbre, but O’ Donovan says the name is now obsolete. May it not be preserved in the name Creeve...a townland...well in sight of the two carns?
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JACAS Imleabhar: II (7), Leathanach: 69, Nóta: (MacNamee)
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1954 |
Craobh-Rois-Da-Charn, the Branching Tree of the Wood of the Two Carns, is the modern townland of Creeve, the wood having got its name from lying within sight of the two carns on the hill-top
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Hist. Ardagh Leathanach: 690
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1982 |
An Chraobhach, ‘the branchy place’ – “...suggested by the form found in the 1612 inquisition which represents the dative Craobhaigh.”
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2002 |
An Chraobh
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2007 |
kriːv
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