Gabhla/Gola

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Hierarchy

townland, island or archipelago

Gabhla

genitive: Ghabhla

validated name (What is this?)

(Irish)

Gola

(English)

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Hierarchy

county

Dún na nGall/Donegal

barony

Cill Mhic Réanáin/Kilmacrenan

civil parish

Tulacha Beigile/Tullaghobegly

electoral division

Machaire Chlochair/Magheraclogher

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

(the island of the) inlet, creek?
(the island of the) forked place(s)?

Ní cinnte cé acu ainmfhocal iolra nó cnuasainm is bunfhoirm don logainm seo, ná cé acu ‘góilín’ nó ‘ladhar’ an bhrí a bhí i gceist an chéad lá. ‘Ladhar’ an míniú de réir an traidisiúin, agus cruth an oileáin faoi thagairt.
English

(the island of the) inlet, creek?
(the island of the) forked place(s)?

It is unclear whether the original form of this placename was a plural common noun or a collective noun. Nor is it clear whether the sense originally intended was ‘(forked) inlet, creek’ or ‘fork, forked place’. Tradition explains the name as ‘fork’, in reference to the shape of the island.

Centrepoint

55.0895, -8.36781latitude, longitude

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Properties

GGaeltacht

POThere is or was once a post office here

Archival records

Historical references

n/a	Féach Scáthlán 3	Nóta Nóta eolais
1608	Goolagh & Imishenny	Analecta Hib. Leathanach: 3.172 Analecta Hibernica; Iris Chumann Lámhscríbhinní na hÉireann
1654	Galla	CS III Leathanach: 114 Civil Survey III. Counties of Donegal, Londonderry and Tyrone. (ed. Simington, 1937) Bliain: 1654
1776	Gola I	Mackenzie 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
1801	Gola	McCrea DG William Mc Crea, A Map of County Donegal, 1801 Nóta: Cóip san Oifig Logainmneacha, Bliain foilsithe: 1801
1833	Gobhla 'forks'	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
1833	Gola	Rec. Name:AL Received Name in Ainmleabhar na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis (AL) Bliain: 1830/1840idí
1834	Gola	DL Dréachtléarscáil na Suirbhéireachta Ordanais ('Fair Plan') Bliain foilsithe: 1830-40

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