Evishbreedy

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Hierarchy

townland

Evishbreedy

(English)

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Hierarchy

county

Dún na nGall/Donegal

barony

Inis Eoghain Thiar/Inishowen West

civil parish

Fathain Íochtarach/Fahan Lower

electoral division

Na hUillí/Illies

Centrepoint

55.182, -7.30818latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1621	Evesabreedie	Inq. Ult. Leathanach: 11 J I Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum Repertorium Áit foilsithe: Dublin, Bliain: 1829
1621	Ellaes & Enesebreedie	Inq. Ult. Leathanach: 11 Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum Repertorium Áit foilsithe: Dublin, Bliain: 1829
1625	Enesabreedy	Inq. Ult. 1 CI Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum Repertorium Áit foilsithe: Dublin, Bliain: 1829
1654	Evissbredie	CS III 6 Civil Survey III. Counties of Donegal, Londonderry and Tyrone. (ed. Simington, 1937) Bliain: 1654
1669	the mts. of Evasabreedy and Minnemarragh	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.
1717	the Trien of Evisbreedy	CGn. 19.51.9652 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1729	Effcianabreed	CGn. 64.398.44371 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1767-1770	Evisbreed "said to belong to no parish but should belong to the parish of Donagh"	Crow Inishowen D835/1/1/8 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
1767-1770	Evisbreed	Crow Inishowen D835/1/1/103 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	Evishbreed	McCrea DG William Mc Crea, A Map of County Donegal, 1801 Nóta: Cóip san Oifig Logainmneacha, Bliain foilsithe: 1801
1830	Evishbreed	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1830	Eifis Brighde ‘Bridget’s pasturage’	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	Effish must be made different here from what we have adopted in Derry. It means "strong pasture" and if it were pronounced Evish as in Derry it would not be understood here, so local and unfixed is the Irish language! and so must every language be as long as its preservation depends upon the memory of the peasantry.	LSO (DG) 41 (OD) Litreacha na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis, Dún na nGall / Ordnance Survey Letters, Donegal.

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