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[4qd-bannvalley] Meen
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Bill,
That looks like the truth. The modern map shows the area "The Meen" lying in a loop with a stream meandering around the loop.
Norman
Bill Dallas <bdallas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Someone was wondering about the meaning of meen / min etc.
I have consulted P.W. Joyce's Irish Names of Places (Vol.2) - from section on Quagmires and Watery Places I quote "The word min (meen) signifies fine or smooth ....... topographically it is often applied to a green spot, comparatively snooth and fertile, producing grass and rushes, on the face of a mountain or in the midst of coarse rugged hilly land ...." Later in the section on size / shape it states "The word min among other significaions means small, and is occasionally used in the same manner as beg...."
Alas, Joyce throws no light on "Shrans"
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<DIV>Bill, </DIV>
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<DIV>That looks like the truth. The modern map shows the area "The Meen" lying in a loop with a stream meandering around the loop.</DIV>
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<DIV>Norman</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Bill Dallas <bdallas@xxxxxxxxxx></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Someone was wondering about the meaning of meen / min etc.<BR>I have consulted P.W. Joyce's Irish Names of Places (Vol.2) - from section on Quagmires and Watery Places I quote "The word <I>min</I> (meen) signifies fine or smooth ....... topographically it is often applied to a green spot, comparatively snooth and fertile, producing grass and rushes, on the face of a mountain or in the midst of coarse rugged hilly land ...." Later in the section on size / shape it states "The word <I>min</I> among other significaions means small, and is occasionally used in the same manner as <I>beg</I>...."<BR>Alas, Joyce throws no light on "Shrans" </BLOCKQUOTE>
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