Bréachmhaigh/Breaghwy

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Bréachmhaigh

genitive: Bhréachmhaí

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Breaghwy

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Breaffy

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Maigh Eo/Mayo

barony

Ceara/Carra

civil parish

Bréachmhaigh/Breaghwy

electoral division

Bréachmhaigh/Breaghwy

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53.844, -9.24596latitude, longitude

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753	(?)Brechmhaighe, Iomaireac Droma robhaich fris a raitear cath	ARÉ Leathanach: i 356 Annála Ríoghachta Éireann. Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters I-VII, ed. J. O'Donovan (an 2ú heagrán, 1856). BÁC Bliain: 300–1636, Nóta eolais: , Údar: John O'Donovan
830c	(?)Bréchmaig, Airmer Craibdech o	Mart. Tall. Leathanach: 30 Meán F., 75 The Martyrology of Tallaght Bliain foilsithe: 1931, Údar: R.I. Best, H.J. Lawlor, Áit foilsithe: London
1150c	a mBrechmuigh a Cera i n-iarthar Connacht... i Tuathaib Fertir i Connachtaib ata	FOeng. Leathanach: 136 Félire Oengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee Bliain: 1200C, Bliain foilsithe: 1905, Údar: W. Stokes, Áit foilsithe: London, Foilsitheoir: Henry Bradshaw Society
1170c	(?)Bréchmaigh, Airmir ó	FGorm. Leathanach: 186 Félire Húi Gormáin: the martyrology of Gorman Údar: W. Stokes, Áit foilsithe: London, Bliain foilsithe: 1895
1297	the church of Brechnach in Fertire	MacCotter 2008 Leathanach: 138 Medieval Ireland: territorial, political and economic divisions (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2008)
1307c	Berethnagh	Pap. Tax. Leathanach: 232 [Papal Taxation], 'Ecclesiastical Taxation of Ireland', CDI V (1886, Londain), 202-323 Bliain: 1302-6
1432	Brechmaid, Malachy Offlannagan [perpetual vicar of]	CPL Leathanach: viii 453 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
1591	Breachvy	Incumbents Leathanach: 225, 226 “Benefices and Incumbents in 1591... in the dioces of Tuam and Annaghdown”, in Knox Hist Tuam 223-7.
1607	Breaghfoy, v. de	Inq.(ME) Leathanach: I.23 Ionchoisní Chontae Mhaigh Eo/Inquisitions County Mayo I - III.
1607	Breaghfoy, v. de	Inq.(ME) Leathanach: I.23 Ionchoisní Chontae Mhaigh Eo/Inquisitions County Mayo I - III.
1617	Boughmovowe [sic]	Inq.(ME) Leathanach: II.195 Ionchoisní Chontae Mhaigh Eo/Inquisitions County Mayo I - III.
1617	Breaghwo	Westport Est. Pap. Leathanach: 888/8(2) Westport Estate Papers Áit: NLI MS 40, Áit: LN 40, Teideal iomlán: Westport Estate Papers, A collection of records relating to the ownership and management of the largest estate in Co. Mayo, covering the 16th-20th centuries...
1629	Breagh[]y	Westport Est. Pap. Leathanach: 889/6(15-16) Westport Estate Papers Áit: NLI MS 40, Áit: LN 40, Teideal iomlán: Westport Estate Papers, A collection of records relating to the ownership and management of the largest estate in Co. Mayo, covering the 16th-20th centuries...
1630c	(?)Breachmaigh, Airine craibhdheach ó	FNÉ Leathanach: 262 §30. Felire na Naomh nErennach/Martyrology of Donegal (1630) (ed. J. O'Donovan, R.H. Todd, W. Reeves). Bliain foilsithe: 1864, Áit foilsithe: Dublin, Údar: J. O'Donovan, R.H. Todd, W. Reeves
1635	the town and 4 qrs of Breaghwy, viz. the qr of Moonycooge...	Straff. Inq. ME Leathanach: §320V The Strafford Inquisition of County Mayo (RIA MS 24 E 15) Foilsitheoir: Irish Manuscripts Commission, Áit foilsithe: Dublin, Údar: William O’Sullivan , Bliain foilsithe: 1958
1635	the town and 4 qrs of Breaghwy, viz. the qr of Moonycooge...	Straff. Inq. ME Leathanach: §320V The Strafford Inquisition of County Mayo (RIA MS 24 E 15) Foilsitheoir: Irish Manuscripts Commission, Áit foilsithe: Dublin, Údar: William O’Sullivan , Bliain foilsithe: 1958
1661	Breaghwy Parish	BSD (ME) Leathanach: 127 Books of Survey and Distribution (Co. Mayo)
1661	Brehagh 1 qr.	BSD (ME) Leathanach: 129 Books of Survey and Distribution (Co. Mayo)
1665	mBrechmuigh a cCeara[, a]	CCEÉ Leathanach: §27a Cuimre Chuimhnighthe ar Easbocaibh Éreann / Brief Memorandum on Irish Bishops le Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, 1665, eag. Nollaig Ó Muraíle ó MS Rawl. B 480, 63r-68v.
1665	Brechmuigh: Aidhbhe, easbog is ab Thíre Da Glas	CCEÉ Leathanach: §27b Cuimre Chuimhnighthe ar Easbocaibh Éreann / Brief Memorandum on Irish Bishops le Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, 1665, eag. Nollaig Ó Muraíle ó MS Rawl. B 480, 63r-68v.
1668	Breghvoy	Westport Est. Pap. Leathanach: 889/10(7-8) Westport Estate Papers Áit: NLI MS 40, Áit: LN 40, Teideal iomlán: Westport Estate Papers, A collection of records relating to the ownership and management of the largest estate in Co. Mayo, covering the 16th-20th centuries...
1668c	Breghvoy	Westport Est. Pap. Leathanach: 889/11(1-3) Westport Estate Papers Áit: NLI MS 40, Áit: LN 40, Teideal iomlán: Westport Estate Papers, A collection of records relating to the ownership and management of the largest estate in Co. Mayo, covering the 16th-20th centuries...
1669	Behavoy, parishes of Turlogh and	ASE Leathanach: 217 Abstracts of Grants of Lands..under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, A.D.1666-1684 (Appendix to Fifteenth Annual Report from the Commissioners of Public Records of Ireland, 45-280; 1825) Bliain: 1666-84
1674c	Breaghvoy	Westport Est. Pap. Leathanach: 889/12(12) Westport Estate Papers Áit: NLI MS 40, Áit: LN 40, Teideal iomlán: Westport Estate Papers, A collection of records relating to the ownership and management of the largest estate in Co. Mayo, covering the 16th-20th centuries...
1674c	Breaghvoy, quarters of	Westport Est. Pap. Leathanach: 889/12(12) Westport Estate Papers Áit: NLI MS 40, Áit: LN 40, Teideal iomlán: Westport Estate Papers, A collection of records relating to the ownership and management of the largest estate in Co. Mayo, covering the 16th-20th centuries...
1676	Breaghvoy	Westport Est. Pap. Leathanach: 889/14(2) Westport Estate Papers Áit: NLI MS 40, Áit: LN 40, Teideal iomlán: Westport Estate Papers, A collection of records relating to the ownership and management of the largest estate in Co. Mayo, covering the 16th-20th centuries...
1680	par. Brecaghvoy	ASE Leathanach: 267 Abstracts of Grants of Lands..under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, A.D.1666-1684 (Appendix to Fifteenth Annual Report from the Commissioners of Public Records of Ireland, 45-280; 1825) Bliain: 1666-84
1683	Breaghvoy	Westport Est. Pap. Leathanach: 889/18(7-8) Westport Estate Papers Áit: NLI MS 40, Áit: LN 40, Teideal iomlán: Westport Estate Papers, A collection of records relating to the ownership and management of the largest estate in Co. Mayo, covering the 16th-20th centuries...
1685	Bregagh	Hib. Del. Hiberniæ Delineatio, William Petty Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Foilsitheoir: Irish University Press (1969)
1685	Brehagh	Hib. Del. Hiberniæ Delineatio, William Petty Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Foilsitheoir: Irish University Press (1969)
1688	Breaghvoy	Westport Est. Pap. Leathanach: 889/23(1-3) Westport Estate Papers Áit: NLI MS 40, Áit: LN 40, Teideal iomlán: Westport Estate Papers, A collection of records relating to the ownership and management of the largest estate in Co. Mayo, covering the 16th-20th centuries...
1700c	Bregwe	Conn. Map Leathanach: 2 Connaught Map (NLI)
1710c	Breagh 1 qr, Monycooge als	CRL Leathanach: 2A.3.16, 54 Crown Rental of Lands.
1710c	Breaghwy, Rectory of	CRL Leathanach: 2A.3.16, 67 Crown Rental of Lands.
1715c	Bregagh	Overton & Morden “Ireland, printed by [John] Over[t]on and [William] Morden, London... inscribed to James, Duke of Ormaond...”, c.1715; NLI 16 L 10(4).
1718	Breaghwoy	L. Blosse Papers Leathanach: 187 §70 “Collection of documents [relating] to the Lynch family (afterwards Lynch Blosses) originally of Galway, afterwards successively of Castlecarra and of Athavallie, Co. Mayo” Iris: Anal. Hib. 29, 115-218
1720c	Bregagh	Lea & Moll A New Map of Ireland, according to Sr. Wm. Petty but supplied by many additions..., by Philip Lea and Henry Moll (gan dáta, c. 1720); NLI 16 L 15(6).
1738	Breaghvoy	Westport Est. Pap. Leathanach: 918/22 Westport Estate Papers Áit: NLI MS 40, Áit: LN 40, Teideal iomlán: Westport Estate Papers, A collection of records relating to the ownership and management of the largest estate in Co. Mayo, covering the 16th-20th centuries...
1753	Breaghvy	Westport Est. Pap. Leathanach: 918/26 Westport Estate Papers Áit: NLI MS 40, Áit: LN 40, Teideal iomlán: Westport Estate Papers, A collection of records relating to the ownership and management of the largest estate in Co. Mayo, covering the 16th-20th centuries...
1787	Breaghwye, Moneycooge alias	QRL Leathanach: 2A.6.69, 63 Quit Rent Ledgers
1787	Breaghvey, Rectory of	QRL Leathanach: 2A.6.69, 83 Quit Rent Ledgers
1792	Breafy	Beaufort Map Beaufort, Map of Ireland, 1792 Bliain foilsithe: 1792, Bliain foilsithe: 1792, Údar: Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort
1802	Breafey, parish of	L. Blosse Maps Leathanach: 2(b) "Maps of the estate of Rev. Sir Francis Lynch Blosse [in the Barony of Carra], 1830” Nóta: Leabharlann Náisiúnta, LN 2706, Bliain: 1830
1811	Breafy	Arrowsmith Léarscáil d'Éirinn, dréachta ag Aaron Arrowsmith, foilsithe 1811.
1811	Breafy	Bald Bog Map Leathanach: 2 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
1828c	Breaghwy	TAB Leathanach: §26 Tithe Composition (Applotment) Book (imleabhair lámhscríofa ó c. 1830 atá ar coimeád sa Chartlann Náisiúnta) Bliain: 1824–40, Nóta: Go minic, tugtar ainm an pharóiste, nó eolas eile i gcolún na nótaí.
1830	Breafy	Bald Leathanach: 14 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
1830	Breafy	Bald Leathanach: 14 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	Breaghfoy	Inq. J II:AL Leathanach: ME036,5 Ionchoisní Séamas II/Inquisitions James II: foinse in AL
1838	Breaghvy	Inq. J II:AL Leathanach: ME036,5 Ionchoisní Séamas II/Inquisitions James II: foinse in AL
1838	Breaghwy	Strafford:AL Leathanach: ME036,5 Strafford Survey (ME):AL
1838	[Breaghwy] "the village of Breafy, in which are a chapel ruins - the new chapel, a smith's forge & public house" [Desc. Rem.];	Desc. Rem.:AL Leathanach: ME036,5 Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40
1838	Breafy "See Parish name" [dúch];	BS:AL Leathanach: ME036,5 Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1838	Breafy	CM:AL Leathanach: ME036,5 Grand Jury County Map ex Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain foilsithe: 1835C
1838	part of Roemore	TAB:AL Leathanach: ME036,5 Tithe Composition (Applotment) Book (imleabhair lámhscríofa ó c. 1830 atá ar coimeád sa Chartlann Náisiúnta), foinse in AL / source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks.

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