Knockananna
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- Knockananna
- Region
- Leinster
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 143
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Knockananna () is a village in County Wicklow, Ireland. After Roundwood, it is the second-highest village in Ireland.
==Toponymy== In Liam Price's extensive survey of place names of County Wicklow his earliest record of Knockananna is dated 1714 using the current spelling. A 1715 record uses Knockannana. The Straughan family deeds use a different spelling; Knockinana in 1717. Finally the village name shown in A.R. Neville's Map of County Wicklow from circa 1810 is Knockanana. A grave accent has been added in the 1989 Gazetteer of Ireland making Knockànanna to provide a guide to proper stressing in pronouncing the name correctly. Price mentions two local names: Boorawn being derived from baudrán a basket covered in cow-hide and Kish, from ceis the name of part of the bog.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Knockananna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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