BROWSE
townland
Coill Ghort Riain
genitive: Choill Ghort Riain
(Irish)
Kyle
(English)

Glossary

coill, coillidh, coillte, coille
English wood
gort, gart
English field

Hierarchy

county

barony

civil parish

electoral division

Explanatory note

  • Gaeilge

    the wood of the field of Rian?
    wood of (the) field of (the) path?

    Ní léir cé acu an t-ainm pearsanta Rian nó an t-ainmfhocal rian atá san eilimint deiridh.

    Is deacair leaganacha béarlaithe de cill agus coill a idirdhealú uaireanta. Faightear défhoghar (~/əi/) sa dá fhocal seo araon i logainmneacha na háite seo (e.g. bf Coill tSaileoige (#28042) agus bf Cill Deilge (#28033) i bparóiste Achadh Bhó) agus gan amhras is fíorannamh is féidir brath ar ortagrafaíocht an Bhéarla i dtaobh chaoile nó leithne c- tosaigh na Gaeilge.

    Ní mór mar sin dul i muinín leis an bhfianaise seandálaíochta. Deir an Corragánach ‘There was a church here in early times, but nothing remains to mark its site save a very small obsolete graveyard’, ach níl a rian seo le fáil san Fhardal Seandálaíochta. (Tá na tagairtí do na bailte fearainn sa bharúntacht seo darb ainm Béarla Kyle measctha sa leagan clóite den Fhardal Seandálaíochta; ní bhaineann leis an mbaile fearainn seo ach §5 ‘megalithic structure’ agus §462 ‘enclosure’; cf. www.archaeology.ie.) Moltar coill anseo. Cf. bf An Choill Bheag (#28710).

    Mar leis an eilimint deiridh, ní féidir trian “third part; division, quarter” a chur as an áireamh.

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52.8074, -7.62404latitude, longitude
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Archival records

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Historical references

1542
Kylgortryan in Gowley otherwise Galmoy
COD Imleabhar: iv, 278
1571
Keylgortryane
COD Imleabhar: 181
1571
Kilgortryan
COD Imleabhar: v, 183
1621
Glasseclone
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 19 J I
1621
Killgortraine
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 19 J I
1630
Kilgartryan
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 38 C I
1655
Killgortrian
DS
1655
Glashclone, kilgortrian and
DS Par. (Reeves)
1655
Kilgortrian and Glashclone
DS Par. (Reeves)
1659
Kilgurtrian
Cen. Leathanach: 493
1660c
Killgurtrian & Glashetowne
BSD (La) Leathanach: 139
1685
Kilgortryan
Hib. Del.
1805
Kile
Cahill (La)
1812
Kyle
Leet Imleabhar: II, Leathanach: 64
1838
Kyle
Moore, Rev.:AL Leathanach: LA026,10
1838
Kyle
Brenan, Rev. T.:AL Leathanach: LA026,10
1838
[Kyle]
"…1 Danish fort."
Desc. Rem.:AL Leathanach: LA026,10
1838
Kyle
GJP:AL Leathanach: LA026,10
1838
Kilegurteen
Cahill Co. Map:AL Leathanach: LA026,10
1838
Kyle
Prop.:AL Leathanach: LA026,10
1838
Kilgurtrian
DS Ref.:AL Leathanach: LA026,10
1838
Kilgortrian
DS Map:AL Leathanach: LA026,10
1838
Coill, 'a wood,' guirtín, 'of the little garden'
OD:AL Leathanach: LA026,10
1838
Coill Goirtín, 'Kyle only'
pl:AL Leathanach: LA026,10
1838
Kyle
"Simply." [Nóta OD]
OD:AL Leathanach: LA026,10
1838
Kyle
"gorteen" [scriosta]
dúch:AL Leathanach: LA026,10
1838
Kylegurteen
BS:AL Leathanach: LA026,10
1838
Kilgurteen
HCSV:AL Leathanach: LA026,10
1838
Killgurteen
Bar. Cons.:AL Leathanach: LA026,10
1838
Kylegurteen
Butler, W.:AL Leathanach: LA026,10
1905
Kyle. In ancient documents the townland appears as 'Kylgortrayn, in Gowley otherwise called Galmoy', 'Killgortraine' and 'Kilgurtrian', and in a will of 1733, as 'Kilegorthrean'. The Irish form of the name is evidently Coill guirt rathain...
....There was a church here in early times, but nothing remains to mark its site savwe a very samll obsoloete graveyard. Carrigan II 284 (ar lean)
Carrigan Imleabhar: II, Leathanach: 284

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