An Ghráig Ard/Graigueard

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Hierarchy

townland

An Ghráig Ard

genitive: na Gráige Airde

(Irish)

Graigueard

(English)

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Glossary

ard

English height; high

gráig

English hamlet; cattle-steading?

Hierarchy

county

Laois/Laois

barony

Clár Maí Locha/Clarmallagh

civil parish

Adhairc/Erke

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

the high hamlet

Centrepoint

52.8273, -7.5714latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1518-19	Graige Arde	Kildare Rent. Leathanach: 268 Kildare Rental (begun in the year 1518) in Mac Niocaill ed. Crown Surveys of Lands 1540 -41(Crown Surv.) pp231-357. Bliain: 1518
1542	Graigearde, in Gowley otherwise Galmoy	COD Imleabhar: iv, 278 Calendar of Ormond Deeds I-VI, ed. Curtis (1932-43). BÁC. Bliain: 1172-1603
1571	Graigarde	COD Imleabhar: v, 181 Calendar of Ormond Deeds I-VI, ed. Curtis (1932-43). BÁC. Bliain: 1172-1603
1655	Gragard	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	Gragard	DS Par. (Reeves) Down Survey Parish Maps ó bhailiúchán Reeves (The Reeves Collection)
1659	Graigard	Cen. Leathanach: 493 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	Gragard	BSD (La) Leathanach: 138 Books of Survey and Distribution (Co. Laois)
1667	Graige-Gard	ASE Leathanach: 96 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	Gragard	Hib. Del. Hiberniæ Delineatio, William Petty Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Foilsitheoir: Irish University Press (1969)
1838	Gragan	BS:AL Leathanach: C021,1,6 Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1838	Gragar	Butler, W.:AL Leathanach: C021,1,6 Butler, W.:AL
1838	Gragard	Moore, Rev.:AL Leathanach: C021,1,6 Moore, Rev.:AL
1838	Gragar	Brenan, Rev. T.:AL Leathanach: C021,1,6 Brenan, Rev. T.:AL
1838	Gragard	DS:AL Leathanach: C021,1,6 Down Survey (1656-1658), foinse in Ainmleabhar na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks
1838	Gráig árd, 'high graigue or village' "We must adopt 'Graig' as the general anglicizing of 'Gráig'." [Nóta OD]	OD:AL Leathanach: C021,1,6 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	Gráig árd	pl:AL Leathanach: C021,1,6 Nóta nó leagan Gaeilge scríofa i bpeann luaidhe in AL/ Note or Irish form written in pencil in AL Bliain: 1838
1838	Gragueard	OD (corr.):AL Leathanach: C021,1,6 Seán Ó Donnabháin, ceartúchán in AL/ John O'Donovan, correction in AL
1838	[Gragueard] "Contains one Danish fort."	Desc. Rem.:AL Leathanach: C021,1,6 Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40
2004		Áit. Fianaise áitiúil, ar théip go hiondúil, ar coimeád i gcartlann an Bhrainse Logainmneacha. Bliain: 1952-

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