Port Uí Mhatháin/Newport

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Port Uí Mhatháin

genitive: Phort Uí Mhatháin

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(Irish)

Newport

(English)

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Glossary

port

English port, bank, fort

Ó, Uí

Hierarchy

county

An Longfort/Longford

barony

Ardach/Ardagh

civil parish

An Ráth Riabhach/Rathreagh

Explanatory note

Gaeilge

the (river) bank of Ó Matháin
Ó Matháin — sloinne.
Achadh Bheannchair, 'field of —' (ní léir brí beannchar i logainmneacha), ainm stairiúil sa cheantar seo.
De réir iontrálacha 1742, áfach, is ionann 'Portmahone' agus Newport féin.
English

the (river) bank of Ó Matháin
Ó Matháin — sloinne.
Achadh Bheannchair, 'field of —' (the meaning of beannchar in placenames is unclear), was a historical placename in this vicinity.
According to the entries from 1742, however, 'Portmahone' is identical with Newport.

Centrepoint

53.6161, -7.56932latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1612	Aghavanchure	Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.I Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1620	Aghevenchor (Nathaniel Fox)	CPR Leathanach: 467a Calendar of Patent Rolls of James I Bliain: 1603–23, Pubref: BÁC, 1966, Teideal iomlán: Irish Patent Rolls of James I: Facsimile of the Irish Record Commission's Calendar prepared prior to 1830
1629	Aghanemchor	Cotton Map Cotton Map
1634	Aghnevenchor (Nath’ Fox)	Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 13 Car.I Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1655	Aghenancher	DS Down Survey (Barony Maps - Hiberniae Regnum, 1654, cóipeanna a rinne an tSuirbhéireacht Ordanáis ó na bunchóipeanna i bPáras, 1908) Bliain foilsithe: 1655-7
1685	Ahenancer	Hib. Del. Hiberniæ Delineatio, William Petty Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Foilsitheoir: Irish University Press (1969)
1740	Aghevancher	CGn. Leathanach: 99.260.69022 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1742	Newport (Peyton Fox)	CGn. Leathanach: 110.48.75413 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1742	Aghavanagher otherwise Portmahone otherwise Newport aforesaid	CGn. Leathanach: 110.48.75413 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1742	Aghevanagher otherwise Portmahone otherwise Newport	CGn. Leathanach: 109.175.75429 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1742	Aghavanagher otherwise Portmahon otherwise Newport	CGn. Leathanach: 109.175.75430 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1743	Aghowanagher otherwise Portmahone otherwise Newport	CGn. Leathanach: 195.333.130492 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1784	Aughavanagher otherwise Portmahon otherwise Newport	CGn. Leathanach: 364.147.243519 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1813	Newport	Edgeworth A map of the county of Longford, William Edgeworth (1813); 4 leathanach (W. Faden, Londain a d’fhoilsigh, 1814)
1835	New Port	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1835	Newport	West:AL West:AL
1835	...½ of which are Bog...a gentleman’s seat of the same name	Desc. Rem.:AL Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40
1835	Newport	Edgeworth Map (AL) Edgeworth Map:AL - Longford & Roscommon
1935	Aghavanchor, in modern times misnamed “Newport”	JACAS Imleabhar: I (4), Leathanach: 74, Nóta: 'Meares of Annalie' Journal of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Antiquarian Society
2008	ˈnuːˌpoːrt	Áit. Fianaise áitiúil, ar théip go hiondúil, ar coimeád i gcartlann an Bhrainse Logainmneacha. Bliain: 1952-

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