Information about Pollcragh

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Standard Name:
Pollcragh
Irish Form of Name:
Poll Creach
Translation:
hole of the preys or plunders
Civil Parish:
Killeenavarra
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Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Pollcragh
Poll Creach
Pulcragh Fort Local name
Situation:
In Ballymore townland

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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