Baile an Fhóntaigh Uachtarach/Fontstown Upper

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Hierarchy

townland

Baile an Fhóntaigh Uachtarach

genitive: Bhaile an Fhóntaigh Uachtarach

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(Irish)

Fontstown Upper

(English)

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Glossary

baile

English townland, town, homestead

Hierarchy

county

Cill Dara/Kildare

barony

An Fhorrach agus An Réabán Thoir/Narragh and Reban East

civil parish

Baile an Fhóntaigh/Fontstown

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

the town of An Fóntach
An Fóntach — ón sloinne Fónt (< le Faunt)
English

the town of An Fóntach
An Fóntach — from the surname Fónt (< le Faunt)

Centrepoint

53.046, -6.8868latitude, longitude

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Archival records

Historical references

1367	Faunteston	Alen's Reg. Leathanach: 219 Calendar of Archbishop Alen's Register (ed. McNeill, 1950) Bliain: 1172-1534, Pubref: Dublin, 1950
1540-1541	Founston Malachei mcDonaghe de Founston	Crown Surv. Leathanach: 149 Crown Surveys of Lands 1540-41 with the Kildare Rental Begun in 1518 ed. Gearóid Mac Niocaill (Dublin, 1992) Pubref: Irish Manuscripts Commission
1752	Fontstown	Noble & Keenan Co. Map Léarscáil de Chontae Chill Dara le Noble & Keenan, 1752 Bliain: 1752
1778	Tountstown	T&S Leathanach: 136 Taylor & Skinner, Maps of the Roads of Ireland Surveyed 1777. Foilsiodh an leabhar seo i 1778. Bliain: 1778, Pubref: leabhar de mhapaí
1807	Funtstown	Stat. Surv. (CD) Leathanach: xv Statistical Survey Kildare 1807
1807	Fontstown	Stat. Surv. (CD) Leathanach: 208 Statistical Survey Kildare 1807
1807	Fontstown	Stat. Surv. (CD) Leathanach: 208 Statistical Survey Kildare 1807
1837	Fonstown (Upper)	BS:AL Leathanach: 1,9 Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1837	Fontstown	Taylor Co. Map 1783:AL Leathanach: 1,9 Major Taylor's Eng. Map ex AL
1837	Fonstown	Noble & Keenan Co. Map:AL Leathanach: 1,9 Léarscáil de Chontae Chill Dara le Noble & Keenan, 1752:AL
1837	Fonstown	Cess Coll.:AL Leathanach: 1,9 Cess Collector, fianaise in AL / evidence in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks Bliain: c1840
1837	Fonstown	Cess Coll. Bk.:AL Leathanach: 1,9 Cess Collector's Book fianaise in AL / evidence in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks.
1837	Fonstown	Stat. Survey (CD):AL Leathanach: 1,9 Rawson Stat. Survey Kildare 1807:AL
1837	Fontstown	Baggott, Rev. C.:AL Leathanach: 1,9 Baggott, Rev. C., faisnéiseoir in AL / informant in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks.
1837	Fontstown Upper	OD:AL Leathanach: 1,9 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
1837	[Fontstown Upper] "An old rath in townland…"	Desc. Rem.:AL Leathanach: 1,9 Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40
1837	Fontstown	Top. Dict. Imleabhar: I, Leathanach: 632 S. Lewis. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland I-II (1837)
1837	Fontstown	Top. Dict. Imleabhar: II, Leathanach: 420 S. Lewis. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland I-II (1837)
2009-2010	ˈfən(t)sˌtoun is mó	Áit. Fianaise áitiúil, ar théip go hiondúil, ar coimeád i gcartlann an Bhrainse Logainmneacha. Bliain: 1952-

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