Cappoquin
Cappoquin (), also sometimes spelt Cappaquin, is a town in western County Waterford, Ireland. It is on the Blackwater river at the junction of the N72 national secondary road and the R669 regional road. It is positioned on a sharp 90-degree bend in the river and lies at the foot of the Knockmealdown Mountains. The town is a few miles from Mount Melleray and Lismore, County Waterford.
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Cappoquin (), also sometimes spelt Cappaquin, is a town in western County Waterford, Ireland. It is on the Blackwater river at the junction of the N72 national secondary road and the R669 regional road. It is positioned on a sharp 90-degree bend in the river and lies at the foot of the Knockmealdown Mountains. The town is a few miles from Mount Melleray and Lismore, County Waterford.
==Name== Cappoquin is an Anglicisation of the Irish Ceapach Choinn, referring to a plot of land (or tillage plot) associated with a person named Conn. According to historian Patrick Weston Joyce, "no one can tell who this Conn was". Variant English spellings include Cappaquin or Capaquin and, in some older texts, Caperquin.
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