An tSeanghlais/Oldglass

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Hierarchy

townland

An tSeanghlais

genitive: na Seanghlaise

(Irish)

Oldglass

(English)

Capitalise

Glossary

sean

English old

Hierarchy

county

Laois/Laois

barony

Clár Maí Locha/Clarmallagh

civil parish

Achadh Bhó/Aghaboe

electoral division

Baile an Ghróntaigh/Grantstown

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

the old stream?

Níl bunús an logainm cinnte.

B’ait an struchtúr an meascán seo d’aidiacht Bhéarla + eilimint Ghaeilge .i. old + *glass < glais(e) “stream” (cf. bf An tSeanbhuiríos (#27833)). Féach leis fuaimniú na logainmneacha seo i gContae Laoise: 2015 /glɑʃə/, 1838 ‘Glosha’ bf An Ghlaise (#28093); 1838 ‘Closhnamuck’ < bf Glais na Muc (#27822); 1838 ‘Closh’ … ‘a’ broad’ < bf An Chlais (#28430), 2015 /kəilnəˈgloʃ/ < bf Coill Átha Glais (#28486).

Mionainmneacha ar an léarscáil:
Féach an mionainm Ballina-ghowl [sic] SO 25ʺ < Baile na nGall (?) “the town of the foreigners” lastuaidh den teach mór sa bhaile fearainn seo: deir Ó Corragán gur anseo a bhí ‘battle-ground of the Oulthachs, or Ulstermen, and the O’Phelans, in 1156 or 1157’ (History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory II 64).

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52.8607, -7.49713latitude, longitude

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Archival records

Historical references

1655	Oldglasse	DS Down Survey (Barony Maps - Hiberniae Regnum, 1654, cóipeanna a rinne an tSuirbhéireacht Ordanáis ó na bunchóipeanna i bPáras, 1908) Bliain foilsithe: 1655-7
1655	Oldglass	DS (P) Parish Maps of the Down Survey (LN p. 7384; LN 721 -- cóipeanna a rinne D. O'Brien, 1786-7) Bliain foilsithe: 1655
1659	Oulglass	Cen. Leathanach: 491 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
1660c	Old Glasse	BSD (La) Leathanach: 137 Books of Survey and Distribution (Co. Laois)
1685	Oldglasse	Hib. Del. Hiberniæ Delineatio, William Petty Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Foilsitheoir: Irish University Press (1969)
1774	Oldglass	T&S Leathanach: 161 Taylor & Skinner, Maps of the Roads of Ireland Surveyed 1777. Foilsiodh an leabhar seo i 1778. Bliain: 1778, Pubref: leabhar de mhapaí
1801	Oldglass	Stat. Surv. (La) Leathanach: 73, 74, 76, 82, 87 Statistical Survey of the Queen's County (1801), C.Coote
1805	Old Glass? nó Oldglass p Bordwell?	Cahill (La) Grand Jury Map of Co. Laois le Denis Cahill TCD 16H18(1-4)
1812	Oldglass	Leet Imleabhar: II, Leathanach: 148 Ambrose Leet. Directory of Postal Towns (1812) Bliain: 1812
1814	Oldglas	Par. Stat. Imleabhar: I, Leathanach: 31, 78 A statistical survey or, parochial survey of Ireland, (3 vols, Dublin, 1814, 1816, 1819) ii, lxvii. Údar: William Shaw Mason
1814	Oldglas, in Irish Aill-glas, the stony green summit.	Par. Stat. A statistical survey or, parochial survey of Ireland, (3 vols, Dublin, 1814, 1816, 1819) ii, lxvii. Údar: William Shaw Mason
1838	Oldglass	Cahill Co. Map:AL Leathanach: La005,22 Grand Jury Map of Co. Laois, ex AL
1838	[Oldglass] "It contains 2 D. forts…is bounded by the river Erskina on the east side."	Desc. Rem.:AL Leathanach: La005,22 Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40
1838	Oldglasse	DS:AL Leathanach: La005,22 Down Survey (1656-1658), foinse in Ainmleabhar na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks
1838	Oldglass	HCSV:AL Leathanach: La005,22 High Commission Survey & Valuation Report 1824 Bliain: 1824
1838	Oldglass	OD:AL Leathanach: La005,22 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	Oldglass	Lalor, J.:AL Leathanach: La005,22 Lalor, J.:AL
1838y	Old glais, 'a streamlet?'	OD:AL Leathanach: La005,22 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	Oldglass	Roe, W.:AL Leathanach: La005,22 Roe, W.:AL
1838	Oldglass	Thacker, Rev.:AL Leathanach: La005,22 Thacker, Rev.:AL
1838	Oldglass	Vestry Bk.:AL Leathanach: La005,22 Vestry Book, foinse in AL / source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks Bliain: 1838
1838	Oldglass	Borris in Ossory Survey 1 Leathanach: La005,22 Borris in Ossory Survey 1
1838	Oldglass	BS:AL Leathanach: La005,22 Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
2004	ˈoːlglas	Áit. Fianaise áitiúil, ar théip go hiondúil, ar coimeád i gcartlann an Bhrainse Logainmneacha. Bliain: 1952-

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