Gob an Ghrafaidh/Gubagraffy

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Gob an Ghrafaidh

genitive: Ghob an Ghrafaidh

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Gubagraffy

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gob

English point, headland

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Maothail/Mohill

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53.8657, -7.89973latitude, longitude

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		Nóta Nóta eolais
		Nóta Nóta eolais
n/a	"Pinkman: Gob-a’-Ghrafaidh = Point of the grubbing. The grafán was a kind of axe for grubbing or cutting furze and other surface growths in preparation for tillage. Land, thus cleared, sometimes preserved the name."	Nóta Nóta eolais
1655	Gobgraffe	DS Down Survey (Barony Maps - Hiberniae Regnum, 1654, cóipeanna a rinne an tSuirbhéireacht Ordanáis ó na bunchóipeanna i bPáras, 1908) Bliain foilsithe: 1655-7
c1660	Gabgraffe	BSD Leathanach: 19 Books of Survey and Distribution Bliain: 1660c
1667	Gobgraffy or Gobgrasty	ASE Leathanach: 89:28 Abstracts of Grants of Lands..under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, A.D.1666-1684 (Appendix to Fifteenth Annual Report from the Commissioners of Public Records of Ireland, 45-280; 1825) Bliain: 1666-84
1667	Gobbgraffy	ASE Leathanach: 136 Abstracts of Grants of Lands..under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, A.D.1666-1684 (Appendix to Fifteenth Annual Report from the Commissioners of Public Records of Ireland, 45-280; 1825) Bliain: 1666-84
1787	Goobegraffy (Reynolds)	Uachtanna, Féach Breifne 1966 Leathanach: 142 Uachtanna, Féach Breifne 1966
1834	Gubagraphy	TAB Leathanach: 58, Nóta: (61:16/16) recap. 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.
1836	Gubagraffy	Rec. Name:AL Received Name in Ainmleabhar na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis (AL) Bliain: 1830/1840idí
1836	Gubbograffy	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1836	Gubbagraffy	CM:AL Grand Jury County Map ex Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain foilsithe: 1835C
1836	Gubagroppy	Hyde, Rev. A.:AL Finné in AL
1836	Gubagraffy alias 'little Cloonturk'	HCPR 1824:AL House of Commons Population Report 1824, foinse in AL / source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1824
1836	Gobgraffe	DS Ref.:AL DS (reference), foinse in AL / source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook:AL
1836	Gobgraf	DS Map:AL Down Survey, foinse in AL (Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook).
1836	Gob a ghrafaidh, 'point, or snout of the grubbing' "For 'Graphy' or 'Grappy' which occurs very often as a termination - see indexes." [Nóta OD]	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
1836	Gubagraffy	OD (corr.):AL Seán Ó Donnabháin, ceartúchán in AL/ John O'Donovan, correction in AL

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