Cuan an Fhóid Duibh/Blacksod Bay

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Cuan an Fhóid Duibh/Blacksod Bay

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Cuan an Fhóid Duibh

genitive: Chuan an Fhóid Duibh

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Blacksod Bay

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cuan

English bay, harbour, recess

dubh, dú-, duí-

English black

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54.0849, -10.0327latitude, longitude

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1614	(?)the bay of Ballicronan in Irris… north-west from that bay lies the island of Iniskaye	Cal. Carew Leathanach: vi 295 Calendar of Carew Manuscripts, 1515-1623 (six volumes) Údar: Brewer, J.S., Bullen, W., Áit foilsithe: London, Bliain: 1867-73
1685	Black Harbour	Hib. Del. Hiberniæ Delineatio, William Petty Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Foilsitheoir: Irish University Press (1969)
1776	Blacksod Bay	Mackenzie Leathanach: 42 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
1790c	Black Sod Harbour	Ire. Map [1790c] Ire. Map [1790c]
1792	Black Sod Bay	Beaufort Map Beaufort, Map of Ireland, 1792 Bliain foilsithe: 1792, Bliain foilsithe: 1792, Údar: Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort
1793	Blacksod Harbour	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).
1811	Blacksod Bay	Arrowsmith Léarscáil d'Éirinn, dréachta ag Aaron Arrowsmith, foilsithe 1811.
1830	Blacksod Bay	Bald 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	Blacksod Bay	Ball, Mr.:AL Ball, Mr., faisnéiseoir in AL / informant in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks.
1838	Blacksod Bay	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1838	Cuan an Fhóid Duibh “harbour of the black sod”	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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