Moycarn

Moycarn Maigh Charnáin (Irish)
Barony
Derrylahan, Moycarn
Barony map of County Roscommon, 1900; Moycarn is coloured blue, in the south.
Sovereign state	Ireland
Province	Connacht
County	Roscommon
Area
• Total	119.77 km^2 (46.24 sq mi)

Moycarn (Irish: Maigh Charnáin;[1] also Moycarnon, Moycarnanan[2] or Moycarne[3] ) is a barony in County Roscommon, Ireland.[4][5]

Etymology

The Irish name Maigh Charnáin means "plain of the cairn." It could also have a connection to Cernunnos, the Celtic hunt god.

Geography

Moycarn barony is located in the south of County Roscommon, north of the River Suck and River Shannon; they meet at the southern tip.[6]

History

The Moycarn barony was anciently called Clan Laithemhain or Muintir Cionaith, ruled by the Gaelic Irish tribes of MacGilla Finnagain (O'Finnegan) and Ó Cionnaoith (Kenny).[7]

It is referred to in the topographical poem Tuilleadh feasa ar Éirinn óigh (Giolla na Naomh Ó hUidhrín, d. 1420):

Mac Giolla Fionnagáin maoiṫ
Agus Clann crodha Cionaoith
Dá droing ar aoḃḋa d' feadain
Ar Cloinn laomḋa Laiṫeaṁain

("Mac Gilla Finnegan the mild and the valiant Clan Kenny: two tribes who are fair so be seen rule over the brave Clan Flahavan.")[8][9][10][11]

Notable later families in the barony include the ffrench and Potts.[12][13][14]

List of settlements

Below is a list of settlements in Moycarn barony:

• Old Town

References

1. "Maigh Charnáin/Moycarn". Logainm.ie.
2. Kehnel, Annette (31 January 1997). Clonmacnois - the Church and Lands of St. Ciar'an: Change and Continuity in an Irish Monastic Foundation (6th to 16th Century). LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 9783825834425. Retrieved 31 January 2019 – via Google Books.
3. Seward, William Wenman (31 December 2018). "Topographia Hibernica: Or The Topography of Ireland, Antient and Modern. Giving a Complete View of the Civil and Ecclesiastical State of that Kingdom; with Its Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Trade, Manufactures, Extent and Population". A. Stewart – via Google Books.
4. "Roscommon Towns". Libraryireland.com.
5. Lewis, Samuel (31 December 2018). "A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland: Comprising the Several Counties; Cities; Boroughs; Corporate, Market and Post Towns; Parishes; and Villages, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions Embellished with Engravings of the Arms of the Cities, Bishopricks, Corporate Towns, and Boroughs; and of the Seals of the Several Municipal Corporations ..." S. Lewis – via Google Books.
6. "CREAGH, a parish". Libraryireland.com.
7. "The Baronies of Ireland - Family History". sites.rootsweb.com.
8. "Ui Mani and Ui Fiacrach Aidni" (PDF). Aughty.org. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
9. "The Topographical Poems of John O'Dubhagain and Giolla-na-naomh O'Huidhrin: Edited in the original Irish from MSS. in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, with translation, notes, and introductory dissertations, by John O'Donovan". A. Thom. 8 July 1862 – via Google Books.
10. O'Clery, Michael (7 July 2018). "The Annals of Ireland [from A.D. 1171 to A.D. 1616]. Translated from the Original Irish of the Four Masters by O'Connellan, with Annotations by P. MacDermott and the Translator" – via Google Books.
11. "Irish Chiefs and Clans in Ossory, Offaley, Leix". Libraryireland.com.
12. "A map of Cloonaghabrack in the barony of Moycarn and County of Roscommon the estate of French. 1780". catalogue.nli.ie.
13. "Estate Record: Potts". landedestates.nuigalway.ie.
14. "Landed Estates Database". Landedestates.ie.