Commas (Kinawley)

Commas (Irish derived place name Cam Eas, meaning either ‘The Bend in the River’ or ‘The Crooked Stream’) is a townland in the civil parish of Kinawley, barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan, Ireland.^[1] Sub-divisions of the townland are- (a) The Strait - A name given to a hollow in the townland up near Cuilcagh mountain; (b) Knocknamaddoo (Irish derived place name Cnoc na Mada, meaning ‘The Hill of the Dogs (or Foxes)’; (c) Sruhan Doo (Irish derived place name Sruthan Dubh, meaning ‘The Black Stream’ because it is so coloured by the peat in the bog through which it flows), Easa Iarainn (Irish derived place name Easa Iarainn, meaning ‘The Iron Waterfall’) and Loinin (Irish derived place name Loinín, meaning ‘The Little Meadow’), are names given to streams flowing down the mountain in Commas.