Coney is an alternative name for which animal?
Coney Island, County Sligo Coney Island, County Sligo Coney Island or Inishmulclohy (), in County Sligo, Ireland, is one of several islands of the same name off the coast of Ireland. It is an island of approximately 400 acres and is named after the vast quantity of rabbits which can be spotted on the island at any time (coney (, historically ) is an English word for a rabbit or rabbit hair, deriving from the Latin "cuniculus", meaning "rabbit"). In 1862 the island had a population of 124 people, with 45 children attending the local school. The island now has only one family of
Coney Island "Coney Island" after the English took over the colony in 1664, "coney" being the corresponding English word. There are several alternative theories for the origin of the name. One posits that it was named after a Native American tribe, the Konoh, who supposedly once inhabited it. Another surmises that Conyn was the surname of a family of Dutch settlers who lived there. Yet a third interpretation claims that "Conyne" was a distortion of the name of Henry Hudson's second mate on the Halve Maen, John Colman, who was slain by natives on the 1609 expedition and buried at a place