Baile Sonnáin/Ballyshannon

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Baile Sonnáin

genitive: Bhaile Shonnáin

non-validated name

(Irish)

Ballyshannon

(English)

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Glossary

baile

English townland, town, homestead

Hierarchy

county

Cill Dara/Kildare

barony

Uíbh Fhailí Thoir/Offaly East

Uíbh Fhailí Thiar/Offaly West

Centrepoint

53.1001, -6.85182 latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1302-6	? Ballythosenan	Pap. Tax. Leathanach: 248 [Papal Taxation], 'Ecclesiastical Taxation of Ireland', CDI V (1886, Londain), 202-323 Bliain: 1302-6
1502	Ballisonan	CPL Leathanach: XVII. 1.565 Calendar of Papal Letters (= Calendar of Papal Registers, Papal Letters, A.D. 1198-1498 , I-XVI, ed. Bliss, Twemlow, Haren & Fuller 1893-1986) Bliain: 1198-1498
1516	Balleyscham	CPL Leathanach: XX 465 Calendar of Papal Letters (= Calendar of Papal Registers, Papal Letters, A.D. 1198-1498 , I-XVI, ed. Bliss, Twemlow, Haren & Fuller 1893-1986) Bliain: 1198-1498
1518	Ballyhennon	Kildare Rent. Leathanach: 288 Kildare Rental (begun in the year 1518) in Mac Niocaill ed. Crown Surveys of Lands 1540 -41(Crown Surv.) pp231-357. Bliain: 1518
1518	Ballysonnan	Kildare Rent. Leathanach: 291 Kildare Rental (begun in the year 1518) in Mac Niocaill ed. Crown Surveys of Lands 1540 -41(Crown Surv.) pp231-357. Bliain: 1518
1540-1541	Ballysenan James fitz Gerald of Ballysenan	Crown Surv. Leathanach: 223 Crown Surveys of Lands 1540-41 with the Kildare Rental Begun in 1518 ed. Gearóid Mac Niocaill (Dublin, 1992) Pubref: Irish Manuscripts Commission
1629-44	oppidoram de Ballysonan	Cillsheanchas Chill Dara Leathanach: 2.30 de hÓir, Éamonn, ‘Blúire Cillsheanchais faoi Fhairche Chill Dara’ in Dinnseanchas 2, 29-39
1629-44	ecclesia de Ballysonan	Cillsheanchas Chill Dara Leathanach: 2.31 de hÓir, Éamonn, ‘Blúire Cillsheanchais faoi Fhairche Chill Dara’ in Dinnseanchas 2, 29-39
1650c	Seanán f. Mo-Thacra, saint [L]	LGen. Leathanach: 458.2 Leabhar Mór na nGenealach: The Great Book of Irish Genealogies, compiled by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, 1- 5 Áit foilsithe: Dublin, Bliain: 1650c, Údar: Nollaig Ó Muraíle, Bliain foilsithe: 2003
1660c	Ballysannane Parish	BSD (CD) Leathanach: 33 Books of Survey and Distribution (Co. Kildare).
1731	Ballyshannon parish	Comerford Leathanach: I 262 Comerford, M. (1883), Collections relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin. Trí imleabhar. Baile Átha Cliath: James Duffy and Sons, 1883.
1766	Ballysonan	Comerford Leathanach: I 273 Comerford, M. (1883), Collections relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin. Trí imleabhar. Baile Átha Cliath: James Duffy and Sons, 1883.
1783	Pt of Ballysonnon P.	Taylor (Cill Dara) Map of Kildare by Alex Taylor of His Majesty's 81st: Regt: 1783
1807	Nurney	Stat. Surv. (CD) Leathanach: 218 Statistical Survey Kildare 1807
1807	Ballysonnon	Stat. Surv. (CD) Leathanach: 218 Statistical Survey Kildare 1807
1837	Ballysonan	Top. Dict. Imleabhar: I, Leathanach: 167 S. Lewis. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland I-II (1837)
1837	Ballysonan	Top. Dict. Imleabhar: I, Leathanach: 167 S. Lewis. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland I-II (1837)
1837	Ballysonan	Top. Dict. Imleabhar: II, Leathanach: 206 S. Lewis. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland I-II (1837)

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