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Oileán na gCloch
genitive: Oileán na gCloch
(Irish)
Stoney Island
(English)

Glossary

cloch, cloich
English stone, stone building
English island

Centrepoint

53.9932, -8.5088latitude, longitude
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Historical references

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Nóta
1836
Oileán Na bPríochan is the name of another of the Islands o th Lake adjoining Clochán Athracht. ***Oileán Na gCloch, another, so called because there is not a blade of grass to be seen on it, being stony ground.
LSO (Sl) Leathanach: 236
1836
Oileán na g-cloch ? some called it because there is not a blade of grass on it"; ‘different from Inse Beg
pl:AL Leathanach: (Sl 025, 19)
1836
Situated in Lough Garra, 30 chains S.W. of the townland of Cupponaugh, and on the W. side of Inch Island, to which it is joined by a neck of land visible in summer
Situation:AL

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