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Colt

genitive: Choilt

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(Irish)

Colt

(English)

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Hierarchy

county

Laois/Laois

barony

Port Laoise Thiar/Maryborough West

civil parish

Cluain Eidhneach agus Cluain Caoin/Clonenagh and Clonagheen

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

Ní léir brí. Is léir ó na foirmeacha stairiúla nach dtagann an logainm seo ó *coillte mar a thuairimítear go mininc.

Tá an-chuid fianaise i seanfhoinsí Gaeilge d'áit eile darb ainm Colt, suite taobh theas den Bhóinn sa Mhí; féach Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha Gaeilge. Féach www.dil.ie s.vv. 1 colt, focal fileata a chiallaíonn ‘bia’, agus 2 colt, aidiacht a chiallaíonn ‘uasal’ ; d’fhéadfadh sé gur ‘talamh thorthúil’ nó ‘áit uasal’ an bhrí atá le colt i logainmneacha.

Mionainmneacha ar an léarscáil:
I dtuaisceart an bhaile fearainn tá an fo-bhaile fb An Bhanrach/Bondra “the paddock” (#1417739). Ní hannamh -ndr- a dhéanamh de -nr- /-nr-/ na Gaeilge sa bhéarlú: cf. bf Branra > Brandra (#27736). Malairt foirme de banrach atá le fáil in bf Móin na Manraí (#28185) (an focal mainear atá le fáil in bf Móin na Manrach (#28731) áfach).
English

Meaning unclear. The historical forms clearly rule out derivation from *coillte “woods” as sometimes suggested.

See rather www.dil.ie s.vv. 1 colt, a literary word apparently meaning “food”, and 2 colt, an adjective glossed as “noble”. It is possible that the word means “a noble place” or “productive land” in placenames. Another place called Colt, situated in Co. Meath between the Boyne and the Liffey, is well-attested in early Irish sources (see Historical Dictionary of Irish Placenames).

Centrepoint

52.9662, -7.34166latitude, longitude

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Archival records

Historical references

1549	Colte	Carrigan MS Imleabhar: 46, Leathanach: 59 Carrigan MS
1549	Cowlte	Carrigan MS Imleabhar: 46, Leathanach: 68 Carrigan MS
1551	Colte	F Leathanach: 696 Calendar to Fiants of reign of Henry VIII. 1510-47...of Queen Elizabeth. 1558-1603'. In RDK (1875-90) Nóta eolais: Tagraítear d'uimhir ailt (ó am go chéile, nuair a théann an t-alt thar bhreis agus leathanach amháin, tagraítear d'alt agus do leathanach) / Reference to article number (occasionally, when the article extends over more than one page, the article and page number are given)., Áit foilsithe: London, Bliain foilsithe: 1875-90
1563	Colt	Cotton Map Cotton Map
1567	Colt	Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 1 Eliz. Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1569	Colte William Bearde or Berde	F Leathanach: 1348 Calendar to Fiants of reign of Henry VIII. 1510-47...of Queen Elizabeth. 1558-1603'. In RDK (1875-90) Nóta eolais: Tagraítear d'uimhir ailt (ó am go chéile, nuair a théann an t-alt thar bhreis agus leathanach amháin, tagraítear d'alt agus do leathanach) / Reference to article number (occasionally, when the article extends over more than one page, the article and page number are given)., Áit foilsithe: London, Bliain foilsithe: 1875-90
1581	Colt	Carrigan Imleabhar: I, Leathanach: 85 History & Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, I-IV (Carrigan, 1905) Bliain: 1000
1588	Colte Patrick Crosbey	F Leathanach: 5139 Calendar to Fiants of reign of Henry VIII. 1510-47...of Queen Elizabeth. 1558-1603'. In RDK (1875-90) Nóta eolais: Tagraítear d'uimhir ailt (ó am go chéile, nuair a théann an t-alt thar bhreis agus leathanach amháin, tagraítear d'alt agus do leathanach) / Reference to article number (occasionally, when the article extends over more than one page, the article and page number are given)., Áit foilsithe: London, Bliain foilsithe: 1875-90
1612	Colte	CPR Leathanach: 301 Calendar of Patent Rolls of James I Bliain: 1603–23, Pubref: BÁC, 1966, Teideal iomlán: Irish Patent Rolls of James I: Facsimile of the Irish Record Commission's Calendar prepared prior to 1830
1655	Coulty	DS Down Survey (Barony Maps - Hiberniae Regnum, 1654, cóipeanna a rinne an tSuirbhéireacht Ordanáis ó na bunchóipeanna i bPáras, 1908) Bliain foilsithe: 1655-7
1659	Coolte	Cen. Leathanach: 498 A census of Ireland, circa 1659: with supplementary material from the poll money ordinances (1660-1661), eag. S. Pender (1939) Bliain foilsithe: 1939, Údar: S. Pender, Áit foilsithe: Dublin
1660c	Coulty, part of	BSD (La) Leathanach: 91 Books of Survey and Distribution (Co. Laois)
1667	Coulty	ASE Leathanach: 102 Abstracts of Grants of Lands..under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, A.D.1666-1684 (Appendix to Fifteenth Annual Report from the Commissioners of Public Records of Ireland, 45-280; 1825) Bliain: 1666-84
1685	Culty	Hib. Del. Hiberniæ Delineatio, William Petty Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Foilsitheoir: Irish University Press (1969)
1805	Coult	Cahill (La) Grand Jury Map of Co. Laois le Denis Cahill TCD 16H18(1-4)
1838	Coult	BS:AL Leathanach: LA014,48 Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1838	Colt	HCSV:AL Leathanach: LA014,48 High Commission Survey & Valuation Report 1824 Bliain: 1824
1838	Coult	CM:AL Leathanach: LA014,48 Grand Jury County Map ex Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain foilsithe: 1835C
1838	Colt	GJP:AL Leathanach: LA014,48 Grand Jury Presentments ex Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Nóta: Féach Grand Jury Presentments., Bliain: 1835, Bliain: 1830-40
1838	Colt	Inq. Eliz. I:AL Leathanach: LA014,48 Foinse in AL
1838	Colt, 'food'	OD:AL Leathanach: LA014,48 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	Colt [Map of Leax and Ophaly]	Map:AL Leathanach: LA014,48 Map / léarscáil in Ainmleabhair na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks.
1838	Colt	OD (corr.):AL Leathanach: LA014,48 Seán Ó Donnabháin, ceartúchán in AL/ John O'Donovan, correction in AL
1838	[Colt] "…contains two small raths."	Desc. Rem.:AL Leathanach: LA014,48 Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40

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