Ráth Maoláin/Rathmullan

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Ráth Maoláin

genitive: Ráth Maoláin

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(Irish)

Rathmullan

(English)

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Glossary

ráth, ráith

English ring-fort

Hierarchy

county

Dún na nGall/Donegal

barony

Cill Mhic Réanáin/Kilmacrenan

civil parish

Cill Gharbháin/Killygarvan

Centrepoint

55.0955, -7.53663latitude, longitude

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Properties

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Archival records

Historical references

1654	Rathmullen (village, qr)	CS III Leathanach: 103 Civil Survey III. Counties of Donegal, Londonderry and Tyrone. (ed. Simington, 1937) Bliain: 1654
1835c	Ballyboe	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1835c	Rathmullen	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1835c	The fort of the hill	Irish Derivation:AL Irish Derivation, foinse in AL / Source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks.
1835c	Rath mullan	Knox, Col.:AL (DG) Knox, Col., faisnéiseoir in AL, Gartán, Cill Gharbháin, Cill Mhic Réanáin, Co. Dhún na nGall / informant in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks, Killygarvan, Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.
1835c	Baile Bo (old Deeny O Dighnigh)	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
1835c	Rath Maoláin 'Mullans rath'	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
1835c	Ballyboe	Smith, Capt.:AL (DG) Smith, Capt., faisnéiseoir in AL, Cill Gharbháin, Cill Mhic Réanáin, Co. Dhún na nGall / informant in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks, Killygarvan, Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.

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