MAP OF THE PARISH
PLACE NAMES OF THE PARISH
Ballycommane - Baile Na gCaman.
It could mean the baile (townland) of the hurleys. In ancient Ireland, a bally meant the amount of land contained in twelve plough lands and each plough land contained 120 Irish acres. A bally was of a size sufficient to sustain four herds of 75 cows in each herd. That is over 300 cows, without one cow touching another. A plough land was equal to what a single plough could turn up in a year. Locally the former meaning seems to predominate.
Knockanare - Cnoc An Air
The hill of the slaughter. There is also a reference to this in the poetry of the Fianna as well as a reference to a battle being fought here during St. Ita's life.
Glenmore - An Gleann Mor.
Quiet simply, The Big Glen
Gortnaskehy - Gort na Sceiche
The translation of this the field of the hawthorns.
Killaculleen - 'Cill 'a Chillin
This could mean the church of the little churches or the church of the hazel grove.
Meenahela - Min na hAille
This means the flat land of the cliff. In this townland there is some flat land and cliffs especially in the vicinity of the creamery.
Meentenowen - Mintin Eoin.
The territory or the land belonging to Eoin.
Dromroe - Dromrua
Translated as the red hill
Faran - Fearann
The big meadow.
Glengort - Gleann Gort
The valley of the enclosed fields.
Knocknadiha - Cnoc na Daibhce
The hill of the tub or the hill of the cauldron.
Reanagilee - Re na nGiollai
The place of the hostages or perhaps the caurse mountain flat of the youths.
Tooreennagreana - Tuairin na Greine
The little sunny bleach green.