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The term baile, anglicised as "bally", is the most dominant element used in Irish townland names. [14] Today, the term "bally" denotes an urban settlement, but its precise meaning in ancient Ireland is unclear, as towns had no place in Gaelic social organisation. [14] The modern Irish term for a townland is baile fearainn (plural: bailte fearainn).
Instead, the Irish Ordnance Survey was initially staffed entirely by members of the British Army. [ 7 ] From 1825–46, teams of surveyors led by officers of the Royal Engineers , and men from the ranks of the Royal Sappers and Miners , traversed Ireland, creating a unique record of a landscape undergoing rapid transformation.
A historian is helping to preserve ancient Irish place names in Ulster with a new townland "atlas".
Derryloughan is a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It lies on the southwest corner of Lough Neagh, 4 miles from Coalisland. It is situated in the historic barony of Dungannon Middle and the civil parish of Clonoe and covers an area of 1751 acres. [1] The name derives from the Irish: Doire Lochain (Oak wood of the little lough). [2]
The American Irish Historical Society (AIHS) is a historical society devoted to Irish American history that was founded in Boston in the late 19th century. Non-partisan and non-sectarian since its inception in 1897, [1] it maintains the most complete private collection of Irish and Irish-American literature and history in the United States, [2] and it publishes a journal entitled The Recorder. [3]
In 1871 the population of the townland was 53, being 23 males and 30 females. There were ten houses in the townland and all were inhabited.(page 296 of census) [26] In 1881 the population of the townland was 44, being 18 males and 26 females. There were eleven houses in the townland, one of which was uninhabited. [27]
In Ireland, a barony (Irish: barúntacht, plural barúntachtaí [1]) is a historical subdivision of a county, analogous to the hundreds into which the counties of England were divided. Baronies were created during the Tudor reconquest of Ireland , replacing the earlier cantreds formed after the original Norman invasion . [ 2 ]
Kilkeel (from Irish Cill Chaoil, meaning 'church of the narrow') [2] [3] is a small town, civil parish and townland (of 554 acres and 6521inh) in County Down, Northern Ireland.. It is the southernmost town in Northern Irela