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Aonad a dó |Mo cheantar féin
Logainmneacha
Faightear eolas go minic faoi thíreolaíocht agus faoi stair an cheantair sna logainmneacha (placenames) a bhaineann leis an gceantar sin.
áth – a ford baile (fearann) – a townland barr – top of a hill béal – mouth or entrance bealach – a way or a pass beann – a point, a headland, a peak bearna – a gap bóthar – a road caiseal – a stone-walled ringfort carraig – a rock cathair – a stone-walled ringfort ceann – head cill – a small church cluain – a meadow cnoc – a hill corrach – a marsh cruach – a hill/mountain doire – an oak grove domhnach – a church droichead – a bridge droim – back of a ridge or a hill dún – an earthen-banked fort eanach – a marsh eas – a waterfall
fearann – land/territory garraí – a garden gleann – a valley or a hollow gort – a field inbhear – a river mouth inis – an island leitir – a hillside lios – an earthen-banked fort loch – a lake má – a plain machaire – a plain mainistir – a monastery móta – a moat muine – a grove mullach – a summit, top of a hill port – a shore, harbour or landing place ráth – an earthen-banked fort ros – a headland or wooded headland slí – a way, a track trá – a beach tuaim – a burial ground tulach – a hill or a mound turlach – a turlough uaimh – a cave
Go minic cuirtear dhá nó trí cinn de na gnéithe seo le chéile chun logainm a chruthú.