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county
barony
civil parish
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Hierarchy
county
barony
civil parish
Explanatory note
- Gaeilge
the castle-town
giorrúchán < Baile Chaisleáin Ó Fairchealláin “the castle-town of Uí Fhairchealláin”Tá cur síos ar an gcaisleán agus ar an mbábhún, atá suite in bf An Ghais (#27827), san Fhardal Seandálaíochta (www.archaeology.ie).
Féach Ó Corragáin: ‘In ancient records it [the town of Castletown] is sometimes called Castletown-Offerlane, that is, Castletown in the territory of Ui-Foircheallain, to distinguish it from Castletown in the parish of Kyle, Castletown-Criffin in the parish of Rathdowney and Castletown-McCody in Galmoy’ (History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory II 171).
Tá neart logainmneacha den déantús Baile C(h)aisleáin (+ cáilitheoir) ar fud na tíre. Féach freisin nóta an Donnabhánaigh faoi b An Sráidbhaile (#1416676) ‘Sráid bhaile, ‘street-town’ (as contradistinguished from ‘castle-town’).’
Cf. bf Baile Chaisleáin Chriofainn (#27904), bf Baile an Chaisleáin (#28783) agus Baile Chaisleáin Ó mBuí (#28844).
Centrepoint
Properties
Historical references
1549 |
Ballycaishlan o ffarille
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Carrigan MS Imleabhar: 46, Leathanach: 52
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1549 |
Ballycaishlan Offarillen
lordship of Leyse
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JKAS Imleabhar: VI, Leathanach: 245
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1563c |
Balachaʃʃan
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1607 |
Castleton
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CPR Leathanach: 110
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1621 |
Castletowne
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Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 19 J I
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1622 |
a mbaile an caisleain
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LBran. Líne: xiv
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1630 |
Castleton, Ferralen
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Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 38 C I
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1630 |
Castleton
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Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 38 C I
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1654-6 |
Castletown
the foard over the Near at ...'
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1655 |
Castletowne
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1655 |
Castletowne
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1655 |
Castletowne
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1655 |
Castletowne Offerillan
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1659 |
Castle towne
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Cen. Leathanach: 496
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1660c |
Castletowne Offerillan
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BSD (La) Leathanach: 147
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1685 |
Castletowne
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1969 |
Castletown – Baile an Chaisleáin
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Bailte Poist Leathanach: 44
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2004 |
ˈkasil
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2005 |
Baile an Chaisléin
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FSÁG Foroinn: 2, Leathanach: 8
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2006 |
ˈkasiltoun
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