An Cionn Bán

An Cionn Bán (Whitehead) derives from the Irish ceann (head or headland) and bán (white), referring to a distinctive white headland. Before the Plantation of Ulster, the place was recorded variously as Whitehead and Kinbaine. In the early seventeenth century, it existed as a small village called Chichester. Sir Moses Hill, a military officer knighted in 1603 for his service during the Essex cam...