Gortaway

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Gortaway

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county

Dún na nGall/Donegal

barony

Cill Mhic Réanáin/Kilmacrenan

municipal district

Leitir Ceanainn–Baile na nGallóglach/Letterkenny–Milford

civil parish

Eachinis/Aughnish

electoral division

Ráth Mealtain/Rathmelton

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55.0371, -7.57888latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1608	Gurtbaby	Survey Ulst. Leathanach: 171 "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
1608-1620	Gortavaghie Sir William Stewart, Knt., hath 1,000 acres called Gortavaghie (202). Here is a Bawne of Stone and Clay, roughcast over with Lime, 80 feet long, 70 feet broad, and 14 feet high ; a good Stone House within it, which is inhabited with a Scottish Gentleman and his Family. He hath 8 Brittish Families upon the Land, which do use Tillage and Husbandry, being able to make 20 Men with arms.	Pynnar Surv. 523 'Pynnar's Survey' in G. Hill, An historical account of the Plantation in Ulster ... 1608-1620 (Belfast, 1877) lgh. 445-590.
1610	Gortivaghy William Stewart	CPR Leathanach: JI 181 Calendar of Patent Rolls of James I Bliain: 1603–23, Pubref: BÁC, 1966, Teideal iomlán: Irish Patent Rolls of James I: Facsimile of the Irish Record Commission's Calendar prepared prior to 1830
1654	Gortevay	CS III Leathanach: 99 Civil Survey III. Counties of Donegal, Londonderry and Tyrone. (ed. Simington, 1937) Bliain: 1654
1659	Gortvaigh	Cen. Leathanach: 55 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
1665	Gortewar (check MS)	HMR Hearth Money Roll
1807	Gorteway owis Gortiway	CGn. 593.185.402437: Stewart and others to Jolly Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1819	Gortaway	CM:AL Grand Jury County Map ex Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain foilsithe: 1835C
1829	Gort a thuaith 'The north garden or the north corn field'	Irish:AL Leagan Gaeilge in AL / Irish version in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks.
1829	Gortiuaghie	Patent (James I):AL Patent (ó aimsir James I), foinse in AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks.
1829	Gortaway	Sproule:AL (DG) Eachinis Sproule:AL, faisnéiseoir in AL, Eachinis, Cill Mhic Réanáin, Co. Dhún na nGall / informant in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks, Aughnish, Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.
1834	Gortaway	TAB 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.
1835	Gort a mhaighe 'Field of the plain'	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

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