Baile Uí Ghamhdáin Mór/Cuffsborough

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townland

Baile Uí Ghamhdáin Mór

genitive: Bhaile Uí Ghamhdáin Mór

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(Irish)

Cuffsborough

(English)

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Glossary

baile

English townland, town, homestead

mór

English great, big

Ó, Uí

Hierarchy

county

Laois/Laois

barony

Clár Maí Locha/Clarmallagh

civil parish

Achadh Bhó/Aghaboe

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

the town of Ó Gamhdáin
Ó Gamhdáin (< Ó Gamhnáin) — sloinne?

Is cosúil ar an bhfianaise is luaithe, 1303–6 ‘Balygeuenan’, gur Baile Uí Ghamhnáin “the town of Ó Gamhnáin” an bhunfhoirm den logainm seo. Cf. tagairtí sna Fiants do dhaoine dar sloinne ‘O Gownan’ i measc lucht na mBranach i gContae Chill Mhantáin.

1805 an chéad tagairt don ainm Béarla Cuffsborough.

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52.8973, -7.5012latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1655	Ballygodmore	DS Down Survey (Barony Maps - Hiberniae Regnum, 1654, cóipeanna a rinne an tSuirbhéireacht Ordanáis ó na bunchóipeanna i bPáras, 1908) Bliain foilsithe: 1655-7
1655	Ballygoudanmore	DS Par. (Reeves) Down Survey Parish Maps ó bhailiúchán Reeves (The Reeves Collection)
1659	Ballygawdanmore	Cen. Leathanach: 491 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	Ballygandenmore	BSD (La) Leathanach: 137 Books of Survey and Distribution (Co. Laois)
1666	Ballygawdanmore & Bogherard	ASE Leathanach: 66 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	Ballidanganmore	Hib. Del. Hiberniæ Delineatio, William Petty Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Foilsitheoir: Irish University Press (1969)
1778	Cuffborough, Cuffe Esq.	T&S Leathanach: 162 Taylor & Skinner, Maps of the Roads of Ireland Surveyed 1777. Foilsiodh an leabhar seo i 1778. Bliain: 1778, Pubref: leabhar de mhapaí
1805	Cuffsborough	Cahill (La) Grand Jury Map of Co. Laois le Denis Cahill TCD 16H18(1-4)
1812	Cuffsborough	Leet Imleabhar: I , Leathanach: 204 Ambrose Leet. Directory of Postal Towns (1812) Bliain: 1812
1814	Cuffsborough	Par. Stat. Imleabhar: I, Leathanach: 31 A statistical survey or, parochial survey of Ireland, (3 vols, Dublin, 1814, 1816, 1819) ii, lxvii. Údar: William Shaw Mason
1838	Cuffsborough	BS:AL Leathanach: La004,43 Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1838	Cuffsborough	Cahill Co. Map:AL Leathanach: La004,43 Grand Jury Map of Co. Laois, ex AL
1838	Cuffsborough	GJP:AL Leathanach: La004,43 Grand Jury Presentments ex Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Nóta: Féach Grand Jury Presentments., Bliain: 1835, Bliain: 1830-40
1838	Cuffsborough	Heaney, Rev.:AL Leathanach: La004,43 Heaney, Rev.:AL
1838	Cuffsborough	OD:AL Leathanach: La004,43 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	Cuffsborough	Lalor, J.:AL Leathanach: La004,43 Lalor, J.:AL
1838	Cuffsborough	Roe, W.:AL Leathanach: La004,43 Roe, W.:AL
1838	Cuffsborough	Thacker, Rev.:AL Leathanach: La004,43 Thacker, Rev.:AL
2004	kofsˈborə	Áit. Fianaise áitiúil, ar théip go hiondúil, ar coimeád i gcartlann an Bhrainse Logainmneacha. Bliain: 1952-

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