BROWSE
townland
Ard na nGlas
genitive: Ard na nGlas
(Irish)
Ardnaglass
(English)

Glossary

English height; high
glas, glaise
English stream

Centrepoint

54.1299, -8.53448latitude, longitude
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Historical references

Ardnaglass, the name of places in Antrim, Donegal, and Sligo; the height of the stream. In Donegal, however, they believe that places with glass in the names were so called from a wonderful milk-giving cow called the Glas or Glasgavlin, for which see vol. i. p. 163
Joyce Imleabhar: III
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Nóta
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Nóta
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Nóta
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Nóta
1584
Ardneglasse
Inq. E: Wood-Martin I Leathanach: 390
1608
Ardneglasse
CPR Leathanach: 109a
1608
Ardenglasse
CPR Leathanach: 109b
1655‒7
Ardneglaße
DS
1659
Ardnaglasse
Cen. Leathanach: 601
1660c
Ardneglasse
BSD Leathanach: 118
1665c
Arnglasse
HMR Leathanach: 21
1685c
Ardneglasse
Hib. Del.
1737
Ardneglasse
CGn. Leathanach: 93.417.66138
1753
Ardnaglass
Carlingford Rent Roll Leathanach: (McDonagh MS. xiii)
1812
Ardnaglass
CGn. Leathanach: 657.103.450642
1819
Ardnaglais [leg. Ardnaglass?]
Larkin (Sl)
1833
Ardnaglass
TAB
1836
Ardnaglass
GJP 1835:AL Leathanach: Sl020,6
1836
Ardnaglass
OD:AL Leathanach: Sl020,6
1836
Ard-na-glass
"Pronounced Ard-na-glass" [dúch];
pron.:AL Leathanach: Sl020,6
1836
Árd na nglas & Ard na ghlas, 'height or hill of the fetters'
OD:AL Leathanach: Sl020,6
1836
Árd na nglas & Árd na Ghlas
pl scriosta:AL Leathanach: Sl020,6
1836
Ardnaglass
BS:AL Leathanach: Sl020,6
1836
Ardnaglass
Garrett, Rev.:AL Leathanach: Sl020,6
1836
Ardnaglass
O'Kane, Rev. P.:AL Leathanach: Sl020,6
1836
Ardnaglass
Old Map 1782:AL Leathanach: Sl020,6
1836
Ardnaglass
Old Map 1764:AL Leathanach: Sl020,6
1836
Ardglass
Old Map:AL Leathanach: Sl020,6
2008
Ard na nGlas
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