Moycarn

{{short description |Barony in County Roscommon, Ireland}}

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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Moycarn

| native_name = Maigh Charnáin (Irish)

| settlement_type = Barony

| image_skyline =Derrylahan area - geograph.org.uk - 246664.jpg

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| image_caption =Derrylahan, Moycarn

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| map_caption = Barony map of County Roscommon, 1900; Moycarn is coloured blue, in the south.

| subdivision_type = Sovereign state

| subdivision_name = Ireland

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = Connacht

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Roscommon

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| area_total_sq_mi =46.24

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Moycarn ({{Langx|ga|Maigh Charnáin}};{{cite web|url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/217|title=Maigh Charnáin/Moycarn|website=Logainm.ie}} also Moycarnon, Moycarnanan{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3J5GY76z55oC&q=Moycarnan&pg=PA77|title=Clonmacnois - the Church and Lands of St. Ciar'an: Change and Continuity in an Irish Monastic Foundation (6th to 16th Century)|first=Annette|last=Kehnel|date=31 January 1997|publisher=LIT Verlag Münster|isbn=9783825834425|accessdate=31 January 2019|via=Google Books}} or Moycarne{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TDNFAQAAMAAJ&q=Moycarne&pg=RA1-PA12|title=Topographia Hibernica: Or The Topography of Ireland, Antient and Modern. Giving a Complete View of the Civil and Ecclesiastical State of that Kingdom; with Its Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Trade, Manufactures, Extent and Population|first=William Wenman|last=Seward|date=31 December 2018|publisher=A. Stewart|via=Google Books}} ) is a barony in County Roscommon, Ireland.{{cite web|url=https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/R/Roscommon-Towns.php|title=Roscommon Towns|website=Libraryireland.com}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NS0xAQAAMAAJ&q=moycarnon&pg=PA520|title=A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland: Comprising the Several Counties; Cities; Boroughs; Corporate, Market and Post Towns; Parishes; and Villages, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions Embellished with Engravings of the Arms of the Cities, Bishopricks, Corporate Towns, and Boroughs; and of the Seals of the Several Municipal Corporations ...|first=Samuel|last=Lewis|date=31 December 2018|publisher=S. Lewis|via=Google Books}}

Etymology

The Irish name Maigh Charnáin means "plain of the cairn." It could also have a connection to Cernunnos, the Celtic hunt god.

Geography

Moycarn barony is located in the south of County Roscommon, north of the River Suck and River Shannon; they meet at the southern tip.{{cite web|url=https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/C/Creagh-Moycarnon-Roscommon.php|title=CREAGH, a parish|website=Libraryireland.com}}

History

The Moycarn barony was anciently called Clan Laithemhain or Muintir Cionaith, ruled by the Gaelic Irish tribes of MacGilla Finnagain (O'Finnegan) and Ó Cionnaoith (Kenny).{{cite web|url=http://sites.rootsweb.com/~irlkik/ihm/baronie4.htm|title=The Baronies of Ireland - Family History|website=sites.rootsweb.com}}

It is referred to in the topographical poem Tuilleadh feasa ar Éirinn óigh (Giolla na Naomh Ó hUidhrín, d. 1420):

Mac Giolla Fionnagáin maoiṫ

Agus Clann crodha Cionaoith

Dá droing ar aoḃḋa d' feadain

Ar Cloinn laomḋa Laiṫeaṁain

("Mac Gilla Finnegan the mild and the valiant Clan Kenny: two tribes who are fair so be seen rule over the brave Clan Flahavan."){{cite web|url=http://www.aughty.org/pdf/ui_mani_ui_fiacrach.pdf|title=Ui Mani and Ui Fiacrach Aidni|website=Aughty.org|accessdate=31 January 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YMk_AAAAcAAJ&q=487&pg=PR1|title=The Topographical Poems of John O'Dubhagain and Giolla-na-naomh O'Huidhrin: Edited in the original Irish from MSS. in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, with translation, notes, and introductory dissertations, by John O'Donovan|date=8 July 1862|publisher=A. Thom.|via=Google Books}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DdhC3eVIdHgC&q=%22from+the+mountain+of+the+most+delightful+bay%22&pg=PA249|title=The Annals of Ireland [from A.D. 1171 to A.D. 1616]. Translated from the Original Irish of the Four Masters by O'Connellan, with Annotations by P. MacDermott and the Translator|first=Michael|last=O'Clery|date=7 July 2018|publisher=|via=Google Books}}{{cite web|url=https://www.libraryireland.com/Pedigrees1/irish-chiefs-clans-ossory-offaley-leix.php|title=Irish Chiefs and Clans in Ossory, Offaley, Leix|website=Libraryireland.com}}

Notable later families in the barony include the ffrench and Potts.{{cite web|url=http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000302512|title=A map of Cloonaghabrack in the barony of Moycarn and County of Roscommon the estate of French. 1780.|website=catalogue.nli.ie}}{{cite web|url=http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=1375|title=Estate Record: Potts|website=landedestates.nuigalway.ie}}{{cite web|url=http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/search.jsp?q=moycarn|title=Landed Estates Database|website=Landedestates.ie}}

List of settlements

Below is a list of settlements in Moycarn barony:

References

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{{Roscommon-baronies}}

{{County Roscommon}}

Category:Baronies of County Roscommon