Information about Pollagilka

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Standard Name:
Pollagilka
Irish Form of Name:
Poll a Ghiolcigh
Translation:
hole of the reeds
Civil Parish:
Kilmeen
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Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Pollagilka
Poll a Ghiolcigh
Poulagilka
Poulagilka Mr. Darcy
Description:
A small pond.
Situation:
Ballydoogan.

Information From Joyce's Place Names

Translation according to P. W. Joyce:
Poll or Poul, a hole in the ground or river or bog, an excavation, a cavern : sometimes made Pollach, like smolach, from Smol: see vol. ii. p. 5.
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