ACHONRY, a parish, in the union of Swinford, barony of Leney, county of Sligo, and province ofConnaught, 6 miles (W. S. W.) from Ballymote; containing 17,986 inhabitants. This place, anciently calledAchad, Acliad-Conair, and Achad-Chauin, was granted about 530, by the chief of the territory of Luigny, toSt. Finian, Bishop of Clonard, who founded an abbey here, and...
