BROWSE
townland
Baile an Chnoic
genitive: Bhaile an Chnoic
(Irish)
Ballinknock
(English)

Glossary

English townland, town, homestead
English hill

Centrepoint

52.2669, -9.6062latitude, longitude
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Historical references

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An Seabhac: Baile an Chnuic Laisteas de Charraig na Fighle Poll a’cheoil ann. Deir Ó Donn – “this hole or cavern is about 60 feet long, 30 wide and 20 high and through it a rapid stream runs.”
Nóta
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Nóta: (aonad talún in aice Ard Fhearta) 1597 Ballinknock F 6117 ('near the town of Ardart'); 1612 Ballenknuck CPR 225a (‘Ardfertougher ...Boltinus and Ballenknuck all in the burrow of Ardfert’); 1612-3 Ballen Cnuck, Ballen Cnucke Inq. I 82; 1631 Ballincnocke Inq. I 241; 1640 Ballincnocke Inq. II 139;
Nóta
1731
Bally(n)knock alias Ballyknock
CGn. Leathanach: 162.47738, Imleabhar: 69
1801
Ballinknock
CGn. Leathanach: 131.356629, Imleabhar: 542
1824
Ballinknuck
TAB Leathanach: 26
1841
Baile an cnuic, 'town of the hill'
OD:AL Leathanach: Ci017,9
1841
Ballinknock
OD:AL Leathanach: Ci017,9
1841
B an ch
pl:AL Leathanach: Ci017,9
1841
Ballyknock
BS:AL Leathanach: Ci017,9
1841
Ballinanuick
Inhabs.:AL Leathanach: Ci017,9
1841
Ballinknuck
TAB:AL Leathanach: Ci017,9
1841
Ballinknuck
Fitzgerald, Rev. J.:AL Leathanach: Ci017,9
2017
ˌbaləˈnɑk
Áit. Cainteoir: 011, Uimhir : 170713

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