Map Reference: Kirkapol 40
Name Type: monastery
Meaning: “to the harbour at Mag Luinge.” Book Two 15, p165. Adomnán of Iona, ed. Richard Sharpe, Penguin Classics, 1995.
Mag(h) Luinge: OI mag 'plain, open stretch of land; a field attached to a fort, dwelling' + long (genitive luinge) 'boat'
Campus Navis: Latin campus 'field, plain' + L navis 'boat'
Campus Lunge: a Latin Early Gaelic hybrid name (all source forms from Vita Columbae)
Unknown location
Other Forms: Campus Lunge, Mag-lunga - W. Reeves, Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 2, 1854, p233-244
Related Places: Thought by many to be near Port na Luinge, Balemartine, and therefore around or on the site of the Soroby graveyard. Possibly on the site of the medieval chapels in Kirkapol - JH.
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Languages : GaelicInformants: Adomnán of Iona, ed. Richard Sharpe, Penguin Classics, 1995
Informant 2: W. Reeves, Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 2, 1854
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