Baile Mhuiris/Ballymorris

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Hierarchy

townland

Baile Mhuiris

genitive: Bhaile Mhuiris

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(Irish)

Ballymorris

(English)

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Glossary

baile

English townland, town, homestead

Hierarchy

county

Laois/Laois

barony

Port na hInse/Portnahinch

civil parish

Lé/Lea

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

the town of Muiris
Muiris — ainm pearsanta (< Moris na nAngla-Normannach)

Cf. Clann Muiris, géag de Chonchúraigh Ó Failí a bhí i réimeas in Oireadh (#1415), taobh theas den pharóiste seo. Féach Topographical Poems (c. 1400) (rann breise é seo a cuireadh leis an bpríomhdhán, ibid. 91n):

Do ghabh críoch álainn amhra
taoiseach oirdhearc atharrdha,
Mac Muiris, nír dhoiligh dhi
suidhis a n-oirear Oire.

Níor mhair an t-aistriúchán Béarla 1666 ‘[Ballymorrish alias] Maurishtowne’ ASE 84 i bhfad. Tá roinnt bréagaistriúcháin agus ainmneacha Béarla nuachumtha san fhoinse céanna, cuid acu níos cruinne agus níos buaine ná a chéile.

Mionainmneacha ar an léarscáil:
Carrick Wood SO, 1905 ‘a wooded hill called Corrig’ JKAS IV 197 < An Charraig “the rock”. Cnoc carraigeach coilltiúil in oirthear an bhaile fearainn (‘Karstified limestone bedrock at surface’ www.epa.ie; cf. Rockfield Cottage SO), mar a bhfuil an foirgneamh baoise darb ainm The Spire (1801 ‘erected … to give employment to the poor in the year of the great frost’ Stat. Surv. 136; cf. www.archaeology.ie).

Centrepoint

53.1434, -7.20048latitude, longitude

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Archival records

Historical references

1564	Ballymoryshe	F Alt: 596 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
1570	Ballymorysh	F Leathanach: 1654 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
1600	Ballimorish Dermott Dempsie	F Leathanach: 6439 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
1602	Ballimorishe Edm. M'Donagh Demsy	F Leathanach: 6666 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
1617	Ballemorish	Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 6 J I Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1618	Ballimorishe	CPR Leathanach: 390 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	Ballemorish	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	Ballinrosh towne	Cen. Leathanach: 502 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	Ballimorish	BSD (La) Leathanach: 118 Books of Survey and Distribution (Co. Laois)
1666	Ballymorrish alias Maurishtowne	ASE Leathanach: 84 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	Ballemorish	Hib. Del. Hiberniæ Delineatio, William Petty Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Foilsitheoir: Irish University Press (1969)
1695	Ballymorris	Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 4 G III Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1814	Ballymorris, Ballimorris	Par. Stat. Imleabhar: I, Leathanach: 546 A statistical survey or, parochial survey of Ireland, (3 vols, Dublin, 1814, 1816, 1819) ii, lxvii. Údar: William Shaw Mason
1838	Ballymorris	BS:AL Leathanach: La041,8 Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1838	Ballymorris	HCSV:AL Leathanach: La041,8 High Commission Survey & Valuation Report 1824 Bliain: 1824
1838	Ballymorris	Vestry Bk.:AL Leathanach: La041,8 Vestry Book, foinse in AL / source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks Bliain: 1838
1838	Ballymorris	Clarke, Rev. :AL Leathanach: La041,8 Clarke, Rev. :AL
1838	Ballimorrish [Copy of DS 1761]	DS:AL Leathanach: La041,8 Down Survey (1656-1658), foinse in Ainmleabhar na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks
1838	Ballymorris	Cahill Co. Map:AL Leathanach: La041,8 Grand Jury Map of Co. Laois, ex AL
1838	Ballymorris	HCons PR:AL Leathanach: La041,8 HCons. PR:AL Bliain: 1838
1838	Ballemorish, Ballymorish	Inq. J I:AL Leathanach: La041,8 Ionchoisní Shéamais I, foinse in AL / Inquisitions James I, source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830/1840idí
1838	Ballymorris	Inq. G III:AL Leathanach: La041,8 Inchoisní Uilliam III, foinse in AL
1838	Baile Mhuiris, 'Maurice's town'	OD:AL Leathanach: La041,8 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	Ballimorish	DS Ref.:AL Leathanach: La041,8 DS (reference), foinse in AL / source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook:AL
1838	Ballimorrish	DS Map:AL Leathanach: La041,8 Down Survey, foinse in AL (Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook).
1838	Ballymorris	OD:AL Leathanach: La041,8 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	[Ballymorris] "It contains 'The Spire Hill,' 'Carrick Hill,' and 'Deerpark' and the ruins of a house."	Desc. Rem.:AL Leathanach: La041,8 Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40
2005	baliˑˈmoris	Áit. Fianaise áitiúil, ar théip go hiondúil, ar coimeád i gcartlann an Bhrainse Logainmneacha. Bliain: 1952-

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