An Baile Fionn/Ballyfin

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An Baile Fionn

genitive: an Bhaile Fhinn

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(Irish)

Ballyfin

(English)

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Glossary

baile

English townland, town, homestead

fionn, finne

English white

Hierarchy

county

Laois/Laois

barony

Port Laoise Thiar/Maryborough West

civil parish

Cluain Eidhneach agus Cluain Caoin/Clonenagh and Clonagheen

townland

An Baile Fionn/Ballyfin

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

the white town

Faoi mar a luann Ó Donnabháin (1838), b’fhéidir nár cheart Baile Uí Fhinn “the town of Ó Finn (sloinne)” a chur as an áireamh ar fad — tá seisear den sloinne Finn luaite le paróiste Chluain Eidhneach in Griffith’s Valuation. Cf. ‘Mc Fyinn’ agus ‘Fyinn’ i measc phríomhshloinnte bharúntacht Osraí agus bharúntacht Phort Laoise in Census 1659 (lgh. 495, 498) (murar cheart Mc Fynin a léamh).

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53.0583, -7.41826latitude, longitude

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Properties

POThere is or was once a post office here

Archival records

Historical references

1838	Baile fionn, 'or perhaps,' Baile Ui Fhinn, 'O'Finn's town'	OD:AL Leathanach: LA014,5 O'Donovan (leagan Gaeilge de logainm nó nóta agus é scríofa le dúch; John O’Donovan / Seán Ó Donnabháin a scríobh de ghnáth), ex AL. A note or an Irish form of a placename in the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks, usually written by John O'Donovan. Bliain: 1830-40, Bliain: 1835, Bliain: 1838
1838	Ballyfin Demesne	BS:AL Leathanach: LA014,5 Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1838	Ballyfin	GJP:AL Leathanach: LA014,5 Grand Jury Presentments ex Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Nóta: Féach Grand Jury Presentments., Bliain: 1835, Bliain: 1830-40
1838	Ballyfin	Coote Map:AL Leathanach: LA014,5 Coote Map:AL
1838	Ballyfin	CM:AL Leathanach: LA014,5 Grand Jury County Map ex Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain foilsithe: 1835C

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