Ceapach Chonáin

Cappacannaun is a townland in County Clare, named from the Irish Ceapach Chonáin, meaning 'Plot of Conan', referring to a share of land associated with someone named Conan. The townland likely formed part of the traditional manor and civil parish system that structured rural Clare during the medieval and early modern periods. Like other Clare townlands, it would have been subject to the broader...