Áth Cinn

Headford's name derives from the Irish Áth Cinn (the ford of the headland), though it was originally called Áth Mhic Chinn, meaning the ford of someone named Mac Chinn or Mac Finn. The English name Headford was adopted only in the 17th–18th centuries as a translation of the abbreviated Irish form. The medieval history of Headford begins in 1238, when Richard de Burgo, the powerful Norman conqu...