Más an Ghlinne/Mossyglen

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Hierarchy

townland

Más an Ghlinne

genitive: Mhás an Ghlinne

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(Irish)

Mossyglen

(English)

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Hierarchy

county

Dún na nGall/Donegal

barony

Inis Eoghain Thoir/Inishowen East

municipal district

Inis Eoghain/Inishowen

civil parish

Maigh Bhile Íochtarach/Moville Lower

electoral division

An Caisleán Nua/Greencastle

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

the long low hill of the glen

In The Origin and History of Irish names of Places thuairimigh Joyce gur úsáideadh más ‘Buttock; ham, thigh’ (FGB) chun cnoc fada íseal a chur in iúl (1869: I 526).
English

the long low hill of the glen

In The Origin and History of Irish names of Places Joyce suggested that más ‘Buttock; ham, thigh’ (FGB) represents a long low hill in placenames (1869: I 526).

Centrepoint

55.2553, -7.01886latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1608	Glanegannebane	Survey Ulst. Leathanach: 168 "A booke of the Kings lands founde upon the last generall survey within the province of Ulster anno le:1608" MS. Rawlinson A.237 Anal.Hib. 3.151-218 Bliain foilsithe: 1608
1621	Massaglyn	Inq. Ult. Leathanach: 11 Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum Repertorium Áit foilsithe: Dublin, Bliain: 1829
1621	Massaghlin	Inq. Ult. Leathanach: 11 JI Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum Repertorium Áit foilsithe: Dublin, Bliain: 1829
1625	Massaglyne	Inq. Ult. 1 CI Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum Repertorium Áit foilsithe: Dublin, Bliain: 1829
1654	Masglin	CS III Leathanach: 4 Civil Survey III. Counties of Donegal, Londonderry and Tyrone. (ed. Simington, 1937) Bliain: 1654
1654	Massaglin	CS III Leathanach: 7 Civil Survey III. Counties of Donegal, Londonderry and Tyrone. (ed. Simington, 1937) Bliain: 1654
1654	river of Masglin	CS III 5 Civil Survey III. Counties of Donegal, Londonderry and Tyrone. (ed. Simington, 1937) Bliain: 1654
1659	Masagleen	Cen. Leathanach: 60 A census of Ireland, circa 1659: with supplementary material from the poll money ordinances (1660-1661), eag. S. Pender (1939) Bliain foilsithe: 1939, Údar: S. Pender, Áit foilsithe: Dublin
1660	Massaglin	BSD (DG) Books of Survey and Distribution (Co. Donegal)
1661	masseglini	Parsons Hollar Map (BM) Map of Inishowen, showing loughs Swilly and Foyle and the land around. 1661 Etching. Wenceslaus Hollar, Sir William Parsons. Leagan ó Mhusaem na Breataine / Copy from The British Museum. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Q-6-140
1665	Massoglin	HMR Hearth Money Roll
1669	Masoaglin alias Glanganvyn	Chic. Pat. Leathanach: 135 'confirmation of the Chichester Patents enrolled 1669', in R. M. Young, Historical Notices of Old Belfast and its vicinity (Belfast, 1896) lgh. 127-138.
1718	Mossaglin	CGn. 21.292.11549 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1722	Massiglin	CGn. 52.341.34787 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1767-1770	Masseyglen	Crow Inishowen D835/1/1/54 Plans of the Earl of Donegall's estates in the barony of Inishowen, Co. Donegal, surveyed and measured by James Crow. 1767-1770 Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) D835/1/1
1801	Mossyglen	McCrea DG William Mc Crea, A Map of County Donegal, 1801 Nóta: Cóip san Oifig Logainmneacha, Bliain foilsithe: 1801
1816	Mossy Glen	CGn. 708.551.485286 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1830	Mossy-Glen	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1835	Ballyure	Rec. Name:AL Received Name in Ainmleabhar na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis (AL) Bliain: 1830/1840idí
1835	Baile úr 'new town'	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
1835	Newtown	Local:AL Foirm in úsáid áitiúil / Finné nó úsáid áitiúil de réir AL Bliain: 1832-38
1844	Ard na Mohog	ALCnoc Ainmleabhair na gCnoc (Hill Drawing Name Books) Bliain: 1844, Bliain: 1844
1844	Ard na Mohog	Rev. O Doherty:ALCnoc Finné in ALCnoc (Hill Drawing Name Books) - Rev. George O'Doherty PP, Upper and Lower Moville Bliain: 1844
1844	Ard na mbothóg 'hill of the huts'	OD:ALCnoc Nótaí le Seán ó Donnabháin in ALCnoc (Hill Drawing Name Books) Bliain: 1844
1845	Dunglune	ALL Ainmleabhar Leasuithe Bliain: 1845
1845C	Brown knee (English)	McDermott,M:ALL Michael McDermott, Kinnagoe, Mossyglen, Faisnéiseoir san Ainmleabhar Leasaithe. Bliain: 1845C

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