BROWSE
townland
An Eiscir Thuaidh
genitive: na hEascrach Thuaidh
(Irish)
Esker North
(English)

Glossary

English ridge

Centrepoint

53.8492, -7.75459latitude, longitude
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Historical references

Eiscir
Cártaí Móra
1612
Esker
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.1
1621
Esker
CPR Leathanach: 533b
1629
Esker
Cotton Map
1655
Esker
DS
1659
Eskirr
Cen.
1660c
Esker
BSD (Lo) Leathanach: 174
1660c
Esker
BSD (Lo) Leathanach: 175
1666
Esker
ASE Leathanach: 127
1667
Esker
ASE Leathanach: 138
1758
upper and Lower Esker and Drumnacohie
CGn. Imleabhar: 196.79.129192
1764
Esker otherwise called Esker-an-Oran and Drumnacohie [Esker South i gceist is dócha]
CGn. Imleabhar: 228.416.151531
1813
Eskar
Edgeworth
1832
Esker North
BS:AL
1832
Esker North
Crawford, Sir, G.:AL
1832
Eskar North
Edgeworth Map:AL
1832
Eskitawe [“eiscir tuath” sa chló gaelach ag OD taobh le seo]
Inq. J I:AL
1832
Esker
Inq. J I:AL
1908
Eskir, Eiscir
MacGivney Leathanach: 112
1942
...the place to which St. Columcill’s book was miraculously carried is described [in the Vida Quinta of St. Columcill] as “the height that was above the place called Escirt na Trath.”
JACAS Leathanach: 27, Imleabhar: II, VII
2007
eskerˈnɑːrt
Áit.

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