An Caoláire Rua/Killary Harbour

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county

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Maigh Eo/Mayo

estuary

An Caoláire Rua/Killary Harbour

estuary

An Caoláire Rua

genitive: an Chaoláire Rua

(Irish)

Killary Harbour

(English)

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Glossary

rua, ruadh

English red; red place

Hierarchy

county

Gaillimh/Galway

Maigh Eo/Mayo

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

An Caoláire Rua ‘the red narrow sea-inlet’
English

An Caoláire Rua ‘the red narrow sea-inlet’

The underlying placename is caol(sh)áile, a compound of caol ‘narrow inlet’ + sáile ‘sea(water)’, which developed to caoláire through dissimilation of l-l- to l-r-.

Historical references

1558c	(?)The Red Bay	Ire. Map [1558c] “Ireland c.1558; London PRO 536...”; NLI 16 L 5(3); féach fosta Andrews’ Maps 34.
1584	beal asse	Browne’s Map Leathanach: 2 A Plat[e] of the County Mayo by Jean Baptiste..., 1590, from a design by John Browne Nóta: LN 16 B 15(1)
1599	Flu Redwater	Boazio Map Baptista Boazio (léarscáil na hEireann, c.1599) Bliain foilsithe: 1599
1607	Kellayle, the sea called	Inq.(ME) Leathanach: III.289 Ionchoisní Chontae Mhaigh Eo/Inquisitions County Mayo I - III.
1614	The creek, bay, or river of Kelariroeh	CPR Leathanach: 268b Calendar of Patent Rolls of James I Bliain: 1603–23, Pubref: BÁC, 1966, Teideal iomlán: Irish Patent Rolls of James I: Facsimile of the Irish Record Commission's Calendar prepared prior to 1830
1651	Koelshaly Roe	Iar Conn. Leathanach: 45 A Chorographical Description of West or H-Iar Connaught written A.D. 1684,by Roderic O'Flaherty, Esq. (ed. Hardiman 1846) Bliain: 1684
1776	The Kilery Harbour	Mackenzie Leathanach: xiv Maritime Survey of Ireland by Murdoch Mackenzie (A Maritim Survey of Ireland and the West of Great Britain taken by Order of the Right Houourable The Lords Commissioners of Admiralty in two Volumes by Murdoch Mackenzie Volume I. Maritim Survey of Irelan Teideal iomlán: Maritime Survey of Ireland by Murdoch Mackenzie (A Maritim Survey of Ireland and the West of Great Britain taken by Order of the Right Houourable The Lords Commissioners of Admiralty in two Volumes by Murdoch Mackenzie Volume I. Maritim Survey of Ireland), Nóta: Cóip san Oifig Logainmneacha, Pubref: London, 1776, Bliain: 1776
1792	The Killery Harbour, The Killeries	Beaufort Map Beaufort, Map of Ireland, 1792 Bliain foilsithe: 1792, Bliain foilsithe: 1792, Údar: Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort
1793	Killiry Harb	Taylor Ire. A new map of Ireland having the great features of the country described in a manner highly expressive... by Alexander Taylor..., 1793; NLI 16 L 10(80).
1795c	Killery Harbour	Vallancey Map Map of Ireland from actual survey by Chas. Vallancey, Colonel Engineer. Nóta: Cóip sa Bhrainse Logainmneacha., Bliain foilsithe: 1785
1796c	Killery, bay of	De Latocnaye Leathanach: 173 A Frenchman’s Walk through Ireland 1796-7 (Promenade d’un Français dans l’Irlande.. Bliain: n.d., Údar: De Latocnaye; translated by John Stevenson, Áit foilsithe: Dublin
1802	The Killery Harbr... the Killeries	Stat. Surv. Mayo Statistical Survey of the County of Mayo, with observations on the means of improvement. Bliain foilsithe: 1802, Áit foilsithe: London, Údar: James McParlan
1811	Kilery Harb.	Arrowsmith Léarscáil d'Éirinn, dréachta ag Aaron Arrowsmith, foilsithe 1811.
1812	Killery Harbour	Bald Bog Map Map of the Bogs, Lying on the South Western Part of the County of Mayo whose waters discharge themselves into Clew Bay, Killery Harbour and Lough Mask. Nóta: NLI 16 E 6, Údar: William Bald, Bliain foilsithe: 1812
1830	Little Killary	Bald Uimhir: 22 William Bald, A Map of the Maritime County of Mayo, in 25 sheets; surveyed between 1809 and 1817 and published in 1830 Bliain foilsithe: 1830
1838	Caol-Sháile Ruadh ‘narrow redbrine’	OD:AL O'Donovan (leagan Gaeilge de logainm nó nóta agus é scríofa le dúch; John O’Donovan / Seán Ó Donnabháin a scríobh de ghnáth), ex AL. A note or an Irish form of a placename in the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks, usually written by John O'Donovan. Bliain: 1830-40, Bliain: 1835, Bliain: 1838

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