Information about Carrowleana

Carrowleana in Galway, and Carrowlena in Mayo ;the quarter of the leana or wet meadow. See Leana,in vol. ii. p. 401.

Leana means in general a wet or swampy meadow - grassy land with a soft spongy bottom. The word is in use more or less all over Ireland but it is commoner in Ulster than in the other provinces. In Derry it is used to signify any green field, meadow, or pasture land; but its usual meaning is the one first given. In its simple form it gives name to the parish of Leny in Westmeath, as well as to the townland of Leany near Corrofin in Clare; and Lenamore, great wet-meadow, is the name of many townlands scattered through several counties. Near the town of Antrim is a townland with the half English name of Quarter Lenagh, that is, the wet-meadow quarter; and in the parish of Aghnamullen in Monaghan, we have Tievaleny, the hill-side of the meadow; Moanleana, near Newcastle in Limerick, the bog of the wet-meadow. The plural léantaidhe [leanty] is exhibited in Aghalenty near Letterkenny in Donegal, the field (achadh) of the wet-meadows.

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

This link is not a link to the townland that you are currently researching; however, if you follow this link, you will see a search box near the top of the page which you can use to search for your townland.

Having followed this link, you will see several expandable links - each link has a plus sign on its left - on the top left of the page. Expand 'Base Information and Mapping'. Now it is possible to select the maps that you wish to view by clicking on the checkbox that is on the left of each map; this list includes the original Ordnance Survey maps.

You can select more than one map and you can use a slider to make one map more transparent than another. This allows you to view what features were present or absent at different points in time.
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Carrowleana

The Down Survey website will tell you who owned this townland in 1641 (pre Cromwell) and in 1671 (post Cromwell).

Down Survey Website
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You can use this link to find this townland on Google Maps.

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You can use this link to view a map of archaelogical features.
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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service

This is a list of townlands that share a border with this townland.

• Carhoontubber East
• Castletown
• Lehinch
• Rockfield West
• Tullaghaun

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.)

Carrowleana is in the civil parish of Kilkerrin.

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

• Clonbern & Kilkerrin

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

• Kilkerrin

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