Céad Acra

Hundredacres is a townland in Kilmainebeg Civil Parish, within Kilmaine Barony in south County Mayo. The Irish name Céad Acra, meaning 'the rocky place of the apple-tree,' predates the English name by centuries, with the anglicized 'Hundredacres' not appearing in records until the second half of the 18th century. Early seventeenth-century records refer to the place as 'Creggannehawly' or 'Cregg...