Information about Carrownavohanaun

Carrownavohanaun in Galway; Ceathramha-na-bhfothanndn [-vohanaun], quarter-land of the thistles. See Fothannán, vol. ii. p. 332 [reproduced below].

Thistle. This plant is denoted in Irish by either fofannán or fothannán [fohanaun], both of which are obviously the same word, varied by dialectical corruption - for in Irish there is occasionally an interchange between th (which sound the same as h) and f (see 1st Vol. Part I., c. iii.). Although these are the words now employed, it is obvious that the forms fothan and fofan, of which they are diminutives, were in use at an earlier period; for we find the adjective form fofanagh (a place full of thistles) as the name of a townland a little north of Buncrana in Donegal; which is the same as fofanny in the two townland names, Fofannybana and Fofannyreagh (white and grey) in the parish of Kilcoo, at the northern base of the Mourne mountains. The little river of Glen Fofanny (thistle glen) flows down from Slive Donard into the sea, a little south of the town of Newcastle. The other form gives name to Fohanagh a parish in Galway, and to the townland of Foghanagh in Roscommon, near the village of Ballymoe, both having the same signification as the preceding. As a termination the word is found in Tonyfohanan in Monaghan, and Barrafohona in Cork, the mound (tonnagh) and hill-top (barr) of the thistles.

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

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Carrownavohanaun

The Down Survey website will tell you who owned this townland in 1641 (pre Cromwell) and in 1671 (post Cromwell).

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

• Ballyaneen North
• Ballyaneen South
• Castletown
• Deerpark
• Lisrabirra
• Rinneen
• Rinrush

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.)

Carrownavohanaun is in the civil parish of Kiltartan.

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

• Kilmacduagh & Kiltartan

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

• Kiltartan

In general, the civil parish and the Church of Ireland parish are the same, but, this is not always the case.