BROWSE
townland
Na Coillte Beaga
genitive: na gCoillte Beaga
(Irish)
Killybegs
(English)

Glossary

beag, big
English small
coill, coillidh, coillte, coille
English wood

Centrepoint

52.7418, -6.21638latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1601
Killbegg (Patr. M’Teige M’Connell)
F Alt: 6549
1601
Killebegg (Edm. M’Murtagh)
F Alt: 6549
1601
Killeghbegg (Edm. M’Teige)
F Alt: 6549
1618
Kilbeggs or Killebiggs, (Lau. Esmond)
CPR Leathanach: 358
1618
Killbegs (Dion. or Donagh O’Dale)
CPR Leathanach: 403
1628
Kilbeg (Dionicius Dale)
Inq. Lag. Alt: 28 C I
1654
Killebegs (i gcur síos ar theorainn Ballylarkin)
CS (LG) Leathanach: 11
1654
Kiltybegs (Wm. Doyle)
CS (LG) Leathanach: 10
1659
Killebegg
Cen. Leathanach: 553
1669
Kilbegge asias Killibegs (Walt. Walsh)
ASE Leathanach: 211
1711
Killibegs als. Kiltibegs (Keen – Caldwell)
CGn. Imleabhar: 9, Leathanach: 177, Uimhir: 3464
1714
Killibegs
Thomas [Byrne] ... co. Wexford.
Dublin Wills
1840
Cealla beaga ‘little churches’
OD:AL Leathanach (AL): 42
1840
Killabegs
TAB:AL
1840
Killibegs
RC. Reg. Book:AL (LG)
1840
Killybegs
Police Reg.:AL (LG)
1840
Killybegs
Tax Warrant:AL (LG)
1840
Killybegs West
Beaumont, J.:AL (LG) An Inis
1840
Na cealla beaga ‘is the Irish name of the place in the Co. of Donegal similar anglicised, the little churches’
OD:AL Imleabhar: I , Leathanach (AL): 19

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