Na Doiríní/The Derries

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Hierarchy

townland

Na Doiríní

genitive: na nDoiríní

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(Irish)

The Derries

(English)

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Glossary

doire

English (oak-)wood, grove, thicket

Hierarchy

county

Laois/Laois

barony

An Choill Uachtarach/Upperwoods

civil parish

Uí Fhairchealláin/Offerlane

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

the little (oak-)woods

Ní léir an iarsma den alt Gaeilge atá le feiscint sa chéad siolla den iontráil 1655 ‘Adirrin’.

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52.9743, -7.61951latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1655	Dirin	DS Par. (Reeves) Down Survey Parish Maps ó bhailiúchán Reeves (The Reeves Collection)
1655	Adirrin in the Bog of Mondrehitt féach Mondrehid bf	DS (Terr.) Down Survey Terrier (Reeves Collection) Bliain: 1655c
1655	Bogg	DS Down Survey (Barony Maps - Hiberniae Regnum, 1654, cóipeanna a rinne an tSuirbhéireacht Ordanáis ó na bunchóipeanna i bPáras, 1908) Bliain foilsithe: 1655-7
1660c	Adirrin in ye bog of Mondrehitt	BSD (La) Leathanach: 148 Books of Survey and Distribution (Co. Laois)
1685	Adderin	Hib. Del. Hiberniæ Delineatio, William Petty Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Foilsitheoir: Irish University Press (1969)
1685	Mondrehitt Bog	Hib. Del. Hiberniæ Delineatio, William Petty Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Foilsitheoir: Irish University Press (1969)
1838	The Derries	BS:AL Leathanach: La048,6 Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1838	The Derries	Price, J.P.:AL Leathanach: La048,6 Finné in AL
1838	Na doirídhe, 'the oak woods'	OD:AL Leathanach: La048,6 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
1838	The Derries	OD:AL Leathanach: La048,6 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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