Irish Place Names

Place Names of Ireland

List of Irish Place Names.


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Name.
County.
Meaning.
     
Cabragh   Bad land.
Caher   Cathair [caher], a circular stone fort.
Caherbarnagh   Gapped caher or fort: (bearnach, gapped).
Caherconlish Co Limerick Cathair-chinn-lis, the caher at the head of the lis or fort.
Caherduggan   Duggan's caher or stone fort.
Cahergal;   White caher or stone fort.
Caherkeen Co Cork Beautiful caher or fort.
Cahersiveen Co Kerry It exactly preserves the pronunciation of the Irish name Cathair-Saidhbhin, the stone fort of Saidhbhin, or Sabina, a woman's name.
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Mountain near Tralee; Curoi's caher, i.e. the celebrated chief, Curoi Mac Daire, who flourished in the first century. His caher still remains on a shoulder of the mountain.
Caldragh   Cealdrach, an old burying ground.
Callow   Cala, a marshy meadow along a river.
Callowhill   Collchoill, hazel wood (coll and coill).
Caltragh   Same as Caldragh.
Calluragh   Ceallurach, an old burial ground.
Camas   Camus; anything that winds, a winding stream: from cam, crooked.
Camlin   Crooked line; often applied to a river.
Camlough   Crooked lake (cam and loch).
Cappa   Cappagh; ceapach, a plot of land laid down for tillage.
Cappaghbeg;   Little tillage-plot.
Cappaghmore   Cappamore; great tillage-plot.
Cappaghwhite Co Tipperary White's tillage-plot.
Capparoe   Red plot
Cappog   Cappoge; little cappagh or plot.
Cappoquin   Ceapach-Chuinn, Conn's tillage-plot.
Caran   Caraun; a rocky place (from carr).
Carbury   Baronies in Longford and Sligo; so called because they were inhabited by the descendants of Carbery, one of the sons of Niall of the Nine Hostages, king of Ireland from A.D. 379 to 405.
Cargagh   A rocky place (from carraig).
Cargan   Cargin; a little rock, a rocky place.
Carha   Cairthe [carha], a pillar stone.
Carhoo   Ceathramhadh [carhoo], a quarter (of land).
Carlingford   Ford is the Danish fiord, a sea inlet; the old Irish name is Cairlinn; Carlingford, the fiord of Cairlinn.
Carlow   Called in Irish documents Cetherloch [Caher-lough], quadruple lake (cether, four); the Barrow anciently formed four lakes there.
Carn   A monumental heap of stones.
Carnacally   The carn of the hag (cailleach).
Carnalbanagh   The carn of the Albanach or Scotchman.
Carnaun   Little carn or monumental heap.
Carnbane   White earn (ban [bawn], white).
Carndonagh   In Innishowen; so called because the carn was situated in the parish of Donagh.
Carnew   Carn-Naoi [Nee], Naoi's carn.
Carnglass   Green carn.
Carnlough   The carn of the lake.
Carnmore   Great carn.
Carnsore Point   The old Irish name is carn, a monumental heap; the termination `ore' is Danish, and signifies the sandy point of a promontory: Carnsore is merely Cam's ore, the ore or sandy point of the carn.
Carnteel Co Tyrone Carn-tSiadhail [Carn-teel], F. M., Siadhal's or Shiel's carn (`s' eclipsed).
Carn Tierna   Near Fermoy. Tighernach [Tierna] Tet-bannach, king of Munster in the first century, was buried under the great carn which still remains on the top of the hill; and hence the name, signifying Tierna's carn.
Carntogher   Hills in Londonderry; the carn of the togher or causeway.
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The highest mountain in Ireland. It descends on the Killarney side by a curved edge, which the spectator catches in profile, all jagged and serrated with great masses of rock projecting like teeth. Tuathail [thoohil] means left-handed, and is applied to anything reversed from its proper direction; carran is a reaping hook; and Carrantuohill is "the reversed reaping hook," because the teeth are on a convex instead of a concave edge.
Carrick   A rock, Irish carraig [carrig].
Carrickbeg   Little rock.
Carrickduff   Black rock.
Carrickfergus   Fergus's rock.
Carrickmore   Great rock
Carrick-on-Shannon.   Carrick is here a corruption of carra, a weir; and the place took its name from an ancient weir across the Shannon. Its old anglicised name was Carrickdrumrusk, properly Carra-Drum-rusk, the weir of Drumrusk.
Carrick-on-Suir   The rock of the Suir; from a large rock in the bed of the river.
Carrig   A rock, the same as Carrick.
Carrigafoyle   On the Shannon, near Ballylongford; Car-raig-a'-phoill, the rock of the hole; from a deep hole in the river, near the castle.
Carrigaholt Co Clare Written by the F. M., Carraig-an-chobhlaigh [Carrigahowly], the rock of the fleet; and it took its name from the rock which rises over the bay where the fleets anchored. The local pronunciation of the Irish name is Carrigaholty, from which the present name is derived. Another place of the same name which preserves the correct pronunciation, is Carrigahowly on Newport bay in Mayo, the castle of the celebrated Grace O'Malley.
Carrigaline Co Cork The rock of O'Lehane.
Carrigallen Co Leitrim Carraig-aluinn, beautiful rock; from the rock on which the original church was built.
Carrigan   Carrigane; little rock.
Carrigans   Little rocks.
Carrigdownane   Downan's or Downing's rock.
Carrigeen   Little rock: Carrigeens; little rocks.
Carrignavar Co Cork  
Carrigogunnell Co Limerick Near the Shannon in Carraig-0-gCoinnell, F. M., the rock of the O'Connells.
Carrigroe   Red rock.
Carrow   A quarter (of land). See Carhoo.
Carroward   High quarter-land.
Carrowbane   Carrowbaun; white quarter-land.
Carrowbeg   Little quarter-land.
Carrowcrin   The quarter-land of the tree (crann).
Carrowduff   Black quarter-land.
Carrowgarriff   Carrowgarve; rough quarter (garbh, rough).
Carrowkeel   Narrow quarter (cael, narrow).
Carrowmanagh   Middle quarter-land.
Carrowmore   Great quarter-land.
Carrownaglogh   The quarter of the stones (cloch).
Carrownamaddoo   Carrownamaddra, Carrownamaddy; the quarter of the dogs (madadh, and madradh).
Carrowntober   The quarter-land of the well (tobar).
Carrowreagh   Carrowrevagh; grey quarter (riabhach).
Carrowroe   Red quarter-land.
Cartron   An Anglo-Norman word, meaning a quarter of land.
Cashel   All the places of this name, including Cashel in Tipperary, were so called from a caiseal [cashel] or circular stone fort.
Cashen river   Aasan a path; for this river was, as it were, the high road into Kerry.
Cashlan   Caislen, a castle.
Castlebane   Castlebaun; white castle.
Castlebar Co Mayo; Shortened from Castle-Barry; for it belonged to the Barrys after the English invasion.
Castlecomer   The castle of the river-confluence (comar).
Castleconnell Co Limerick :
Castledermot Co Kildare. The old name was Disert-dermot, Diarmad's desert or hermitage, from Diarmad son of the king of Ulidia, who founded a monastery there about A. D. 800. The present form of the name is derived from a castle built there by Walter de Riddlesford in the time of Strongbow.
Castledillon Co Kildare Irish name Disert-Iolladhan [Disertillan], Iolladhan's or Illan's hermitage; and the word Castle was substituted for Disert as in last name.
Castlelyons Co Cork The castle of O'Lehane or Lyons.
Castlemoyle;   Bald or dilapidated castle (mael).
Castlepook   The castle of the pooka or spright.
Castlerahan   The castle of the little rath or fort.
Castlereagh   Grey castle (riabhach).
Castleterra Co Cavan A corruption from the Irish Cos-a'-tsiorraigh [Cussatirry], the foot(cos) of the searrach or foal. The name is accounted for by a legend about a stone with the print of a colt's foot on it.
Castleventry Co Cork The Irish name is Caislean-na-gaeithe [Cashlaunnageeha], the castle of the wind, of which the present name is a kind of translation.
Cavan Co Cavan Cabhan, a hollow place. In some parts of Ulster it is understood to mean a hard round hill.
Cavanacaw   The round hill of the chaff (cath) ; from the practice of winnowing.
Cavanaleck   The hill of the flag-stone.
Cavanreagh   Grey hill (riabhach [reagh] grey).
Celbridge Co Kildare The cell, kill, or church, of the bridge; a kind of half translation from the original Irish name Cill-droichid [Kildrohed], the church of the drohed or bridge, which is still retained as the name of the parish, but shortened to Kildrought.
Cheek Point   On the Suir below Waterford; a corruption of Sheega Point, the Irish name being Pointe-na-sige, the point of the sheegas or fairies.
Claggan   Claigeann, the skull, a round hill.
Clankee   Barony of, in Cavan; Clann-an-chaoich [Clann-an-Kee], the clan or descendants of the one-eyed man. They derived this cognomen from Niall O'Reilly, slain in 1256, who was called caech [kee], i.e. one-eyed.
Clanmaurice   Barony of, in Kerry; the clan or descendants of Maurice Fitzgerald.
Clanwilliam   Baronies of, in Limerick and Tipperary; the clan or descendants of William Burke.
Clara   Claragh; a level place; from clar.
Clare   A level piece of land (clar).
Clareen   Little clar or level plain.
Clare-Galway   Irish name Baile-an-chlair [Ballinclare], F. M., the town of the plain; of which only the latter part is retained: called Clare-Galway to distinguish it from other Clares.
Clash   Clais, a trench or furrow.
Clashduff   Black trench.
Clashganniff   Clashganniv, Clashganny; the trench of the sand, i. e. a sandpit (gainimh [ganniv], sand).
Clashmore   Great trench.
Cleenish   Claen-inis [Cleeninish], sloping inis or island.
Cleggan   The same as Claggan.
Clifden Co Galway A very modern corruption of the Irish name Clockan, which signifies a beehive-shaped stone house.
Cliffs of Moher   The term Mathar [Moher]is applied in the south of Ireland to the ruin of a caher, rath, or fort; and on a cliff near Hag's Head there stands an old stone fort, called Moher O'Ruan, O'Ruan's ruined fort, from which the cliffs of Moher received their name.
Clogh   A stone; often applied also to a stone castle.
Cloghan   Cloghane, Cloghaun; a row of stepping stones across a river (from cloch).
Cloghbally   Stony bally or townland.
Cloghboley   Cloghboola; stony booley or dairy place.
Cloghbrack   Speckled stone.
Cloghcor   Rough stone.
Clogheen   Little stone or stone castle.
Clogher Co Tyrone Generally applied to stony land-a place full of stones; but occasionally it means a rock.
Clogherbrien Co Kerry Braen's stony place.
Cloghereen   A place full of stones (cloch).
Cloghermore   Great stony place.
Cloghernagh   Clogherny; a stony place.
Cloghfin   Cloch-finn, white stone.
Cloghineely Co Donegal Cloch- Chinnfhaelaidh [Clogh-Kineely], F. M., Kineely's or Mac Kineely's stone. Name accounted for by a long legend. The stone which gave name to the district is still preserved.
Cloghoge   A stony place.
Cloghpook   The pooka's or spright's stone.
Cloghran   Cloichrean, a stony place.
Cloghvoley   Cloghvoola, Cloghvoolia, Cloghvoula; Cloch-bhuaile, stony booley or dairy place.
Cloghy   A stony place.
Clogrennan   Cloch-grianain, the stone castle of the grianan or summer residence.
Clomantagh Co Kilkenny Mantagh's stone castle.
Clon   A meadow. See Cloon.
Clonad   Cluain-fhada [Cloonada],long meadow.
Clonagh   Cluain-each, horse meadow.
Clonallan Co Down Called by Colgan and others Cluain-Dallain, Dalian's meadow; from Dalian Forgall, a celebrated poet of the sixth century
Clonalvy   Cluain-Ailbhe, Ailbhe's or Alvy's meadow.
Clonamery   The meadow of the iomaire or ridge.
Clonard Co Meath Written in Irish authorities Cluain-Eraird, Erard's meadow. There are several other places called Clonard and Cloonard; but in these the Irish form is probably Cluain-ard, high meadow.
Clonarney   Cluan-airne, the meadow of sloes.
Clonaslee   The meadow of the slighe [slee] or road.
Clonbeg   Little meadow.
Clonbrock   The meadow of the brocs or badgers.
Cloncrew   In Limerick; Cluain-creamha [crawa], the meadow of wild garlick
Cloncullen   Holly meadow.
Cloncurry   Shortened from Cluain-Conaire [Cloon-Con-ary], F. M., Conary's meadow.
Clondalkin Co Dublin Cluain-Dolcain, Dolcan's meadow.
Clonduff Co Down Cluain-daimh[dav], O'C. Cal., the meadow of the ox.
Clone   A meadow; same as Clon and Cloon.
Cloneen   Little meadow.
Clonegall Co Carlow Cluain-na-nGall [Cloon-nung-aul], the meadow of the Galls or foreigners.
Clonenagh   In Queen's County; Cluain-eidhnech [enagh], O'C. Cal., the meadow of ivy (see eidhnean in Vocab.). It was so called before the sixth century, and to this day it abounds in ivy.
Clones   (pronounced in two syllables); Cluain-Eois [Cloonoce], F. M., the meadow of Eos [Oce], a man's name.
Clonfad   Clonfadda, and Cloonfad; Cluain-fada, long meadow.
Clonfeacle Co Tyrone Called Cluain-fiacla [feekla] in the Book of Leinster; the meadow of the tooth.
Clonfert   The Book of Leinster writes the name Cluain-ferta, the meadow of the grave.
Clongill   Cluain-Gaill, the meadow of the foreigner.
Clongowes   The meadow of the smith (gobha).
Clonkeen   Cluain-caein [keen], beautiful meadow.
Clonlea   Clonleigh, and Cloonlee; Cluain-laegh [lee], the meadow of the calves.
Clonliff   The meadow of herbs (lubh, an herb).
Clonmacnoise   Written in Irish documents of the eighth century Cluain-maccu-Nois, which was the old pagan name; and it signifies the meadow of the sons of Nos. This Nos was the son of Fiadhach [Feeagh], a chief of the tribe of Dealbhna or Delvin, in whose territory Clonmacnoise was situated.
Clonmeen   Cluain-min [meen], smooth meadow.
Clonmel   Cluain-meala [malla], the meadow of honey (mil).
Clonmellon   Cluain-milain, F. M., Milan's meadow.
Clonmelsh   Cluain-milis, sweet meadow (from honey).
Clonmore   Great meadow.
Clonmult   The meadow of the wethers (molt).
Clonoghil   The meadow of the yew-wood.(eochaill).
Clonoulty   Cluain-Ultaigh [ulty], the Ulsterman's meadow.
Clonshire   Cluain-siar, western meadow.
Clonsilla   Cluain-saileach, the meadow of sallows.
Clonskeagh   Cluain-sceach, the meadow of the white thorns.
Clontarf   Cluain-tarbh [tarriv], F. M., the meadow of the bulls.
Clontibret; Co Monaghan Written by the annalists Cluain-tiobrat, the meadow of the spring (tipra, same as Mar).
Clonturk   And Cloonturk; the boar's meadow (torc).
Clonty   Cluainte, meadows, plural of cluain.
Clonygowan   Cluain-na-ngamhan [Cloon-nung-own], F. M., the meadow of the calves.
Clonyhurk   Cluain-da-thorc [Cloonahork], F. M., the meadow of the two boars.
Cloon   And Cloone; a meadow. See Cluain in Vocabulary.
Cloonagh   The meadow of horses (each}.
Cloonard.   See Clonard.
Cloonawillin   Cluain-a'-mhuilinn, the meadow of the mill.
Cloonbeg   Little meadow.
Clooncah   The meadow of the battle (cath).
Clooncoose,   Clooncose; Cluain-cuas, F. M., the meadow of the caves.
Clooncraff; same as Cloncrew. The meadow of wild garlick
Clooncunna   Clooncunnig, Clooncunny; the meadow of the firewood (conadh).
Cloondara   Cluain-da-rath, F. M., the meadow of the two raths or forts.
Cloonee   And Clooney; meadow land.
Clooneen   Little meadow.
Cloonfinlough   The meadow of the clear lake.
Cloonkeen   Cluain-caein, beautiful meadow.
Cloonlara   The meadow of the mare (larach).
Cloonlougher   The meadow of the rushes (luachra).
Cloonmore   Great meadow.
Cloonnagashel Co Mayo  
Cloonshannagh   Cloonshinnagh; fox meadow (sionnach).
Cloonshee   The meadow of the fairies (sidh).
Cloonsillagh   The meadow of sallows.
Cloonteen   Little meadow.
Cloonties   Cluainte, meadows (English plural form).
Cloontubbrid   Same as Clontibret.
Cloontuskert;   Cluain-tuaisceirt [tooskert], F. M., northern meadow.
Cloonty   Cluainte, meadows, plural of cluain.
Cloran   Clorane, Clorhane; a stony place (cloch).
Clough Co Down A stone or stone castle.
Cloyne Co Cork Shortened from Cluain-uamha [Cloon-ooa], as it is written in the Book of Leinster. The name signifies the meadow of the cave (uaimh); and the cave is still to be seen.
Clyduff   Black dyke or mound (cladh).
Colehill   Coll-choill, hazel wood.
Coleraine. Co Derry We are told in the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, that a chieftain named Nadslua presented the saint with a piece of land on the bank of the river Bann, on which to build a church. It was a spot overgrown with ferns, and it happened at the moment that some boys were amusing themselves by setting them on fire. Hence the place was called Cuil-rathain [Coolrahen], which Colgan translates Secessus filicis, the corner (cuil) of the ferns. Cool-rain, Coolrainey and Coolrahnee, are similarly derived.
Collon   A place of hazels (coll).
Colp Co Louth Near Drogheda. According to an ancient legend, when the Milesian brothers invaded Ireland, one of them, Colpa the swordsman, was drowned at the mouth of the Boyne; hence it was called Inver-Colpa, Colpa's river mouth; and the parish of Colp, on its southern bank, retains the latter part of the name a little shortened.
Comber   Comer; see page 4.
Commaun   A little cum or hollow.
Conicar   Conicker, Conigar, Coneykeare; Cuinicer [cun-nikere], a rabbit warren.
Conlig Co Down The liag or stone of the hounds (cu).
Connello   Baronies of, in Limerick. This was the ancient territory of the tribe of Hy Conall or Hy Conaill Gabra [Goura] (so written in the Book of Leinster), who were descended and named from Conall, the ninth in descent from Olioll Olum, king of Munster in the second century.
Connemara   Maev, queen of Connaught in the time of Conor mac Nessa, had three sons by Fergus mac Roy, ex-king of Ulster, namely, Ciar [Keer], Con-mac, and Modhruadh [Moroo]. The descendants of Conmac were called Conmacne (ne, a progeny), and they were settled in Connaught, where they gave name to several territories. One of these, viz., the district lying west of Lough Corrib and Lough Mask, from its situation near the sea, was called, to distintinguish it from the others, Conmacne-mara (O'Dugan: muir, the sea, gen. mara), or the sea-side Conmacne, which has been shortened to the present name Connemara.
Connor Co Antrim; Written Condeire or Condaire in various authorities; the derry or oak wood of the dogs (cu), or as it is explained in a gloss in the Martyrology of Aengus, "The oak wood in which were wild dogs formerly, and she wolves used to dwell therein."
Convoy   Conva; Con-mhagh, hound plain (cu and magh).
Conwal   Congbhail [Congwal], F. M., a habitation.
Cooga   Coogue; Coigeadh [Coga], a fifth part.
Cool   Coole; cuil, a corner, or cul, a back.
Coolattin   The corner of the furze (aiteann).
Coolavin   A barony in Sligo; Cuil- O'bhFinn [Coolovin], F. M., the corner or angle of the O'Finns.
Coolbanagher   The angle of the pinnacles. (See Banagher.)
Coolbane   Coolbaun ; white corner or back.
Coolcashin   Cashin's corner or angle.
Coolderry   Back derry or oak word.
Cooleen   Little corner; Cooleeny, little corners.
Cooleeshal   Coolishal; low corner (iseal).
Cooley hills Co Louth Near Carlingford. After the defeat of the Tuatha De Dananns by the Milesians, at Teltown in Meath, the Milesian chief Cuailgne [Cooley], following up the pursuit, was slain here; and the district was called from him, Cuailgne, which name is still applied to the range of hills.
Coolgreany   Sunny corner or back (grian the sun).
Coolhill   And Coolkill; cul-choill, back wood
Coolnahinch   The corner of the inis, island, or river meadow.
Coolock   Coologe; little corner or angle.
Coolroe   Red corner or back.
Coom   Coombe; cum, a hollow or mountain valley,
Coomnagoppul Co Killarney Cum-na-gcapall, the hollow or valley of the horses; from the practice of sending horses to graze in it.
Coomyduff Co Kerry Near Killarney; Cum-ui-Dhuibh [Coomywiv], O'Duff's valley; usually but erroneously translated Black valley.
Coos   Coose; cuas, a cave.
Coosan   Coosane, Coosaun; little cave.
Cor   Corr. This word has several meanings, but it generally signifies a round hill.
Corballis   Corbally; odd townland: cor here means odd.
Corbeagh   Round hill of the birch (beith).
Corcomohide Co Limerick Corca-Muichet (Book of Lismore), the race (corca) of Muichet, one of the disciples of the druid, Mogh Ruith.
Corcomroe   Barony of, in Clare; Corca-Modhruadh or Corcomruadh [Corcomrua : Book of Leinster], the race (corca) of Modhruadh, son of queen Maev. (See Connemara.)
Corcreevy   Branchy hill. Craebh [creeve], a branch.
Cordangan   Fortified cor or round hill.
Cordarragh   Round hill of the oak (dair).
Corduff   Black round hill.
Corgarve   Rough round hill (garbh).
Corglass   Green round hill (glas).
Corick   The meeting of two rivers.
Cork   Corcach, a marsh. The city grew round a monastery founded in the sixth century on the edge of a marsh, by St. Finbar; and even yet a part of the city is called the Marsh.
Corkagh   The same name as Cork.
Corkaguiny   Barony of, in Kerry; Corca-Duibbne (divny: O'Dugan], the race (corca) of Duibhne, son of Carbery Musc, who was son of Conary II., king of Ireland from A.D. 158 to 165. `D' changed to `g': see page 4.
Corkaree Co Westmeath Barony of, in Westmeath; Corca Raeidhe [Ree: O'Dugan], the race (corca) of Fiacha Raidhe [Feeha Ree], grandson of Felimy the Lawgiver, king of Ireland from A.D. 111 to 119.
Corkeeran   Corrakeeran; the round hill of the keerans or quicken trees (caerthainn).
Corkey   The same name as Cork and Corkagh.
Corlat   The round hill of the sepulchres (leacht).
Corlea   Grey round hill.
Corlough   The lake of the corrs or herons.
Cormeen   Smooth round hill.
Cornacreeve   The round hill of the branchy tree (craebh).
Cornagee   Cornageeha; the round hill of the wind (gaeth).
Cornahoe   The round hill of the cave (uaimh).
Cornamucklagh   The round hill of the piggeries. See Mucklagh.
Cornaveagh   The round hills of the ravens (fiach).
Corratober   The round hill of the well (tobar}.
Corrinshigo   Corrinshigagh; the round hill of the ash trees. See Fuinnse in Vocabulary.
Corrofin Co Clare Coradh-Finne [Corrafinna], F. M., the weir of Pinna, a woman's name.
Corskeagh   The round hill of the white thorns.
Coshbride   Coshlea, Coshma, baronies, the first in Waterford, the others in Limerick. Cosh (Irish cois, from cos a foot), means at the foot of, near, beside. Coshbride, the barony along the river Bride. Cosh-lea, cois-shleibhe [cushleva], at the foot of the sliabh or mountain, i.e. the Galties. Coshma, Cois-Maighe [ma], the barony along the river Maigue.
Craan   Craane; a stony place (from carr).
Crag   Craig; other forms of carraig, a rock.
Cran;   Crann, a tree.
Cranfield   A corruption of Creamh-choill [Cravwhill], the wood (coill) of wild garlic (creamh).
Crannagh Co Down A place abounding in cranns or trees.
Crannoge   A habitation on an artificial island in a lake.
Cranny   The same as Crannagh.
Cratloe   Crataloe; sallow wood.
Craughwell   Creamh-choill, wild garlic wood.
Crecora Co Limerick Craebh-cumhraidhe [Crave-coory] O'Dugan, sweet scented creeve or branchy tree.
Creevagh   A branchy place (craebh).
Creeve   Craebh [creeve], a branch, a branchy tree.
Creevelea   Grey branch or branchy tree.
Creevy   The same as Creevagh.
Creg   Cregg; Creag, a rock.
Creggan   Creggane, Creggaun; little rock, rocky ground.
Cremorne Co Monaghan Barony in Monaghan; Crioch-Mughdhorn [Cree-Mourne], the country (crioch) of the tribe of Mughdhorna [Mourna], who were descended and named from Mughdhorn [Mourne], the son of Colla Meann, one of the three brothers who conquered Ulster, and destroyed the palace of Emania in A.D. 332.
Crew the same name as Creeve.  
Croagh   Cruach, a rick or stacked up hill.
Croaghan   Croaghaun; a round or piled up hill.
Croaghpatrick   St. Patrick's rick or hill.
Crock   Is very generally used in the northern half of Ireland instead of Knock, a hill.
Crockanure   Cnoc-an-iubhair, the hill of the yew.
Crogh   The same as Croagh.
Croghan   Crohane; the same as Croaghan.
Crossakeel   Slender crosses.
Crossan   Crossane, Crossaun; little cross.
Crossboyne   Cros-Baeithin, Hy F., Baeithin's or Boyne's cross.
Crosserlough   The cross on (air) or near the lake.
Crossgar Co Down Short cross.
Crossmaglen Co Armagh Cros-meg-Fhloinn [Cros-meg-lin: fh silent], the cross of Flann's son.
Crossmolina Co Mayo Cros-ui-Mhaelfhina, F. M., O'Mulleeny's or Mullany's cross.
Crossoge   Little cross.
Crossreagh   Grey cross (riabhach).
Crott   Cruit, a hump, a humpy backed hill.
Cruagh Same as Croagh. Cruach, a rick or stacked up hill.
Crui Same as Crott.  Cruit, a hump, a humpy backed hill.
Crumlin   Cromlin; Cruim-ghlinn, [Crumlin], F. M., curved glen.
Crusheen   Croisin, little cross.
Cuilbeg   Cuilmore; little wood, great wood (coill).
Culdaff;   Cul-dabhach [Culdava], the back (cul) of the flax-dam or pool.
Culfeightrin Co Antrim Cuil-eachtrann [Coolaghtran ], the corner (cuil) of the strangers.
Cullan   Cullane, Cullaun; a place of hazels (coll).
Culleen   Coillin, little wood.
Cullen   Cuillionn [Cullen], holly, holly land.
Cullenagh   A place producing holly.
Cullentra   Cullentragh; same as Cullenagh.
Cullenwaine Co Offaly in King's County; Cuil-0-nDubhain [Cool-onuan], F. M., the corner or angle of the O'Duanes.
Cullion   The same as Cullen.
Cully   Woodland; from coill.
Culmullen Co Meath The angle of the mill.
Cumher Cummer  
Curra   Curragh; currach, generally a marsh; sometimes a race course.
Currabaha   Currabeha; the marsh of the birch.
Curraghbeg   Little marsh.
Curraghboy   Yellow marsh.
Curraghduff   Black marsh.
Curraghlahan   Curraghlane; broad marsh.
Curraghmore   Great marsh.
Curragh of Kildare   The word here means a race course: the Curragh of Kildare has been used as a race course from the earliest ages.
Curraheen   Little currach or marsh.
Curry   Another form of Curragh, a marsh.
Cush See Coshbride.  
Cushendall Co Antrim Cois-abhann-Dhalla [Cush-oun-dalla], the foot or termination of the river Dall.
Cushendun Co Antrim; Called by the F. M., Bun-abhann-Duine, the end, i. e. the mouth of the river Dun; this was afterwards changed to Cois-abhann-Duine [Cush-oun-Dunny] by the substitution of Cois, the foot or end for Bun.
Cutteen   Coitchionn [cutteen], common, a commonage.
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