Information about Cloonfinnoge

Cloonfinnoge in Galway ; Cluain-pmnog [-finnoge], meadow of the scald-crows. See Feannog, vol. i.p. 486 [reproduced below].

Feannog [fannoge], signifies a royston or scald crow: we find it in Tirfinnog near Monaghan, the district of the scald crows; in Carnfunnock in Antrim, where there must have been an old monumental heap frequented by these birds; and Toberfinnick in Wexford is the scald crows' well. Buffanoky in Limerick represents the Irish Both-fionnoice, the hut or tent of the royston crow. Very often the f is eclipsed (p. 22), as in Mullanavannog in Monaghan, Mullach-na-bhfeannog, the scald crows' hill. A raven is designated by the word fiach [feeagh], which, in anglicised names it is often difficult to distinguish from fiadh, a deer. There is a remarkable rock over the Barrow, near Graiguenamanagh, called Benaneha, or in Irish Beann-an-fheiche, the cliff of the raven; Lissaneigh in Sligo is the raven's fort; Carrickaneagh in Tipperary, and Carricanee in Donegal the raven's rock. The genitive plural with an eclipsis (p. 22) is seen in Mulnaveagh near Lifford, and Mullynaveagh in Tyrone, the hill of the ravens.

Ireland was first mapped in the 1840s. These original maps are available online.
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Cloonfinnoge

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Cloonfinnoge

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This is a list of townlands that share a border with this townland.

• Ballynacorra Ffrench
• Cloonkeen Netterville
• Cloonkeene Ffrench
• Kentstown
• Toomard

You can retrieve a list of people who lived in this townland from 1827 to 1911. This list is compiled from the following resources.

• The Tithe Applotment Books
• Griffith's Valuation
• 1901 Census
• 1911 Census

List of nineteenth century and early twentieth century inhabitants of this townland.

Church records of births, deaths and marriages are available online at http://www.rootsireland.ie. To search these records you will need to know the 'church parish' rather than the 'civil parish'. (The civil parish is the pre-reformation parish and was frequently used as a unit of administration in the past.)

Cloonfinnoge is in the civil parish of Killian.

This civil parish corresponds with the following Roman Catholic parish or parishes.

• Killian and Killeroran (Kilronan) (Ballygar)

This civil parish corresponds with the following Church of Ireland parish.

• Killian

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