BROWSE
townland
Baile Mhic Giolla Bháin
genitive: Bhaile Mhic Giolla Bháin
non-validated name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Ballykillavane
(English)

Glossary

English townland, town, homestead
English white; lea-ground, grassy

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52.9759, -6.12491latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1604
Balligillobaine
CPR
1604
Ballygillobane
CPR
1604
Ballygillobane
CPR
1619
Ballegellebane
CPR
1619
Balligillebane
CPR
1619
Ballygillehyne
CPR
1622
Ballygillebane
CPR
1660c
Ballyillobane
BSD (CM)
1668
Ballykillabane
HMR (CM)
1685c
Ballagilbana
Hib. Del.
1704
Ballygilbane
Dublin Wills
1715
Ballygillevan
CGn.
1738
Ballygillevane
CGn.
1760
kill-avane
Nevill 1760
1820
Ballykilivawn
GJR 1819-21 (CM)
1839
Ballykillavane
Allen Nevill Map:AL (CM) Leathanach: CM041,19
1839
Ballykillavane
Nevill Wicklow:AL Leathanach: CM041,19
1839
Ballykillavane
CM:AL Leathanach: CM041,19
1839
Ballykillavane
Armstrong, Rev. C.:AL Leathanach: CM041,19
1839
Baile mhic giolla bháin, 'Mac Kilvane's town'
"See page 20" [dúch];
OD:AL Leathanach: CM041,19
1839
BallyKillavane (Townland)
Rec. Name:AL Leathanach: CM041,19
1839
Baile cill amheadhain
pl:AL Leathanach: CM041,19
1839
Ballykillavane
OD:AL Leathanach: CM041,19
1839
[Ballykillavane]
"Mr Blake of Galway has a large wood on the E. side which rises very suddenly as a planted precipice on which are the walls of house called Ross Lodge. The wood is young oak, hazel and fur." [Desc. Rem.];
Desc. Rem.:AL Leathanach: CM041,19
1839
Ballykillavane
Hall:AL Leathanach: CM041,20
1839
Ballykillavan
Dillon:AL Leathanach: CM041,20
1839
Ballykillavan
Thompson:AL Leathanach: CM041,20
1839
Ballykillavane
Booth:AL Leathanach: CM041,20
1839
Ballykillavane
Tombstone 1824:AL Leathanach: CM041,20
1839
Ballykillavane
Co. Schedule 1837:AL Leathanach: CM041,20
1839
Bally-kil-a'-ván
"Pronounced Bally-kil-a'-ván" [dúch];
pron.:AL Leathanach: CM041,20
1929
'Ballykillavawn' (I lch.53).
LPN
1932
Some suggestions about Wicklow placenames made to me by Nioclás Toibín of Carlow (native speaker from Co. Waterford):...'Baile cille abhann' (?) (this is wrong, it is 'giolla': see the old forms). (172-3)
LPN

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