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:
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.

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.