Information about Pollnabauny or Pollnabanny

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Standard Name:

Pollnabauny or Pollnabanny

Irish Form of Name:

Poll na Báinigh

Translation:

hole of the white cow

Civil Parish:

Killeeneen
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Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:

Pollnabauny or Pollnabanny
Poll na Báinigh
Poulnabauny Village Local name

Situation:

S. of Rockfield townland.

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.