Information about Corlackan

Corlackan in Galway; round hill of the leaca or hill-slope. See Leaca, vol. i. p. 418 [reproduced below].

Leacan is one of the most widely extended of all derivatives from leac, and in every part of the country it is applied to a hill-side. In the modern forms of Lackan, Lacken, Lackaun, Leckan, Leckaun, and Lickane, it gives name to more than forty townlands, and its compounds are still more numerous. Lackandarra, Lackandarragh, and Lackendarragh, all signify the hill-side of the oak; Ballynalackan and Ballynalacken, the town of the hill-side. Lackan in the parish of Kilglass in Sligo was formerly the residence of the Mac Firbises, where their castle, now called Castle Forbes (i.e. Firbis), still remains; and here they compiled many Irish works, among others, the well known Book of Lecan. The form Lacka is also very common in local names, with the same meaning as leacán, viz., the side of a hill; Lackabane and Lackabaun, white hill-side. The two words, leaca and leacán, also signify the cheek; it may be that this is the sense in which they are applied to a hill-side, and that in this application no reference to leac, a stone was intended.

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

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Corlackan

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.

• Aghalateev
• Cartron
• Curraghrevagh
• Garraunmore
• Gortmorris
• Kilbegnet
• Rossmoylan
• Sunnaghmore

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.)

Corlackan is in the civil parish of Kilbegnet.

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

• Glinsk & Kilbegnet

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

• Kilbegnet

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