An Mhachaire Bheag/Magherabeg

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Hierarchy

townland

An Mhachaire Bheag

genitive: na Machaire Bige

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(Irish)

Magherabeg

(English)

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Hierarchy

county

Dún na nGall/Donegal

barony

Inis Eoghain Thiar/Inishowen West

civil parish

Fathain Uachtarach/Fahan Upper

electoral division

Fathain/Fahan

Centrepoint

55.07, -7.44903latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1609	Maghereveg	Inq. Ult. App. Inquisitiones Ultoniæ, Appendix Bliain: 1609, Nóta: Appendix I–VII: Tailte eaglasta i gcontaetha AM, TE,Do, DG, FM, Ca Appendix IX–XII Escheated Lands not granted to the Bishops......, Pubref: His Majestie's Printers, Dublin 1829, Teideal iomlán: Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariæ Hiberniæ Asservatum Repertorium, Vol. II (Ultonia)
1654	Maghere bogg quartr	CS III Leathanach: 13 Civil Survey III. Counties of Donegal, Londonderry and Tyrone. (ed. Simington, 1937) Bliain: 1654
1655-7	Magerbeg	DS Contae (DG) The Down Survey - The County Donagall Ar fáil: https://downsurvey.tchpc.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php
1660	Magherebeg	BSD (DG) Books of Survey and Distribution (Co. Donegal)
1661	Magheneleg	Chic. Map Lord Chichester's Map of the Inishowen peninsula
1740	Maghrybeg	Protestant Householders 43 Names of 14,400 Protestant householders for parts of the counties of Londonderry, Donegal, Antrim, Armagh and Tyrone taken from the returns to the Irish House of Commons concerning religion. 1740. (P.R.O., Dublin bundle 75 of Parliamentary religious returns). 147 pages of typescript. Ar fáil: https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/PRONI-T808-15258
1763	The Bridge of Magherybegg	GJP (DG) GJ/1/1: 174 [virtualtreasury.ie] Grand Jury Presentments, Donegal Donegal Grand Jury assizes/presentments, 1753-1769. DonegalCA GJ/1/1. Cartlann Chontae Dhún na nGall, leagan digitithe ar fáil ag https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/
1801	Magherybeg	McCrea DG William Mc Crea, A Map of County Donegal, 1801 Nóta: Cóip san Oifig Logainmneacha, Bliain foilsithe: 1801
1830	Maghrebeg	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1830	Machaire beag	OD:AL 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
1830c	Magherabeg	TAB Tithe Composition (Applotment) Book (imleabhair lámhscríofa ó c. 1830 atá ar coimeád sa Chartlann Náisiúnta) Bliain: 1824–40, Nóta: Go minic, tugtar ainm an pharóiste, nó eolas eile i gcolún na nótaí.

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