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county
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Hierarchy
county
barony
civil parish
Explanatory note
- Gaeilge
the swamp, bog
Foirm chalctha den logthuiseal nó den tuiseal tabharthach de An Ghreallach. Tá foirm ghinideach an logainm caomhnaithe sa lámhscríbhinn Leabhar Cheanannais: erchennech Grellege, aircinnech Grellige [.i. airchinneach] (i gcairteacha a bhaineann leis an 11ú agus an 12ú haois, in eagar ag Mac Niocaill, Notitiæ as Leabhar Cheanannais, 1961); Girley, Grilly atá i gcáin phápach thosach an 14ú haois; ‘It is called by the Irish by the more correct name Greille’ Ainmleabhar, s.v. Girley (1836). Féach grellach ‘swamp, bog, mire’, A Dictionary of the Irish Language
Centrepoint
Historical references
1598 |
Girle
(6057). Pardon to Laurence Plunkett, of Rathmore, co. Meath,
gent. ; for assaults and robberies on Thadeus O'Moryle, of Moiasker,
husbandman, Richard Bege, of Freyseliston, gent., Brien
O'Gonoe, of Loghanra, and Thomas O'Cronam, of Kilskir, husbandman
(the last with the aid of Caier rwo O'Reylle, of Girle,
kern), all in county Meath.
—
Not dated [i.J.
(Cal. P.R., p. 405, art. 97.)
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1655-7 |
Girley
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1655-7 |
Girly
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1660c |
Girly
Nicholas Plunkett of Tatrath. 77
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1666 |
Girly
22. Sir RICHARD INGOLDSBY knt. of the bath and
Sir HENRY INGOLDSBY bart…Ciavaghtowne,
Piercetowne, Corballis, Ballyboy, and Cookstowne,
913 a…Ballybegg, Fordstowne, and Curraghtowne, 711…Newtowne-Girlv, 426 a…part of Girly contiguous
to Curraghtowne, 501 a…Valvenstowne, Corrstowne, Nugentstowne, and Little Arthgaine, 607 a…in Curraghtowne,
20 a…bar. Kells, co. Meath.
ASE 60
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1836 |
Greille
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OC:AL Leathanach: Mí035,31
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1836 |
a miry place
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OD:AL Leathanach: Mí035,31
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1836 |
Girley
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OD:AL Leathanach: Mí035,31
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1836 |
[Girley]
"…a Roman Catholic chapel also a fort."
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Desc. Rem.:AL Leathanach: Mí035,31
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1836 |
Girley
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BS:AL Leathanach: Mí035,31
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1836 |
Girley - town
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HCSV:AL Leathanach: Mí035,31
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1836 |
Girley
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Larkin (Mí):AL Leathanach: Mí035,31
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1836 |
Girley
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Agent (Dyas):AL Leathanach: Mí035,31
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1836 |
Girley
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TAB:AL Leathanach: Mí035,31
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1836 |
Girley
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HCER 1826:AL Leathanach: Mí035,31
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1836 |
Girly
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DS:AL Leathanach: Mí035,31
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1836 |
Rector de Matry & Girley
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Inq. J I:AL Leathanach: Mí035,31
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1836 |
Girley
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Inq. C I:AL Leathanach: Mí035,31
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1836 |
Gyrly
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Inq. C I:AL Leathanach: Mí035,31
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1836 |
Girly
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Inq. G. & M.:AL Leathanach: Mí035,31
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