Cappoquin
Sign in to saveCappoquin (), 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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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Cappoquin
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- ga
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- Town
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- Main Street
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- Ireland
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- right
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- Location in Ireland
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- Ireland
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- Munster
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Waterford
- Population
- +740
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Main Street, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford - geograph.org.uk - 571254.jpg
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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.