Baile an Locha/Ballinlough

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Hierarchy

townland

Baile an Locha

genitive: Bhaile an Locha

(Irish)

Ballinlough

(English)

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Glossary

baile

English townland, town, homestead

loch

English lake; inlet

Hierarchy

county

Laois/Laois

barony

Port Laoise Thoir/Maryborough East

civil parish

Cill tSíle/Kilteale

electoral division

Baile Uí Chearúill/Ballycarroll

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

the town of the lake

I lár an bhaile fearainn atá an loch, Ballin Lough SO.

Ainmneacha stairiúla:
Tá tobar gan ainm le feiscint ar an gcéad eagrán SO 6ʺ in iarthuaisceart an bhaile fearainn agus trí chrainn léirithe lámh leis. Tá sé le tuiscint as an gcur síos ar theorainn thailte an Phiogóidigh gurb ionann é seo is 1608 ‘a well, in which young ash trees grow, called Glassenefonsocke’ CPR < Glaise na bhFuinseog “the stream of the ash-trees”.

Centrepoint

53.0418, -7.19747latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1608	Ballinriegh?	CPR Leathanach: 112b 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
1654-6	Ballinlogh	CS X Leathanach: 21 Civil Survey X. Supplementary vol. (ed. Simington, 1961) Bliain: 1654
1660c	Balleanlochy	BSD (La) Leathanach: 98 Books of Survey and Distribution (Co. Laois)
1805	Ballin(t)ogh	Cahill (La) Grand Jury Map of Co. Laois le Denis Cahill TCD 16H18(1-4)
1838	Ballinlogh	Cahill Co. Map:AL Leathanach: La038,4 Grand Jury Map of Co. Laois, ex AL
1838	Ballinlough	Inq. J I:AL Leathanach: La038,4 Ionchoisní Shéamais I, foinse in AL / Inquisitions James I, source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830/1840idí
1838	Ballinlough	BS:AL Leathanach: La038,4 Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1838	Ballinlough	HCSV:AL Leathanach: La038,4 High Commission Survey & Valuation Report 1824 Bliain: 1824
1838	Baile an locha, 'town of the lough, or lake'	OD:AL Leathanach: La038,4 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	[Ballinlough] "...in the centre is a small pool called 'Ballinlough', north of which and on the barony boundary is a large fort."	Desc. Rem.:AL Imleabhar: La038, Leathanach: 4 Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40
1838	Ballinlough	OC:AL Imleabhar: La038, Leathanach (AL): 4 Leagan Gaeilge nó Béarla a scríobh Tomás Ó Conchúir in AL/Irish or English form written by Thomas O'Conor in AL Bliain: 1838
2005	balinəˈləg	Áit. Fianaise áitiúil, ar théip go hiondúil, ar coimeád i gcartlann an Bhrainse Logainmneacha. Bliain: 1952-

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