BROWSE
Béal Átha na Lao
genitive: Bhéal Átha na Lao
(Irish)
Ballinalee or Saintjohnstown
(English)

Glossary

English ford
English opening, approach, mouth
English calf

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53.7765, -7.65824latitude, longitude
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Historical references

Béal Átha na Lao
Cártaí Móra Nóta: (PO)
n/a
Béal Átha na Lao
Moladh
1618
The castle and fort of Ballyleig otherwise Bealaleig, and 300a, then or late in the tenure of sir Richard Greame, knt., lying about said castle, and next adjoining to the river Shannon.
CPR Leathanach: 360b
1618
The castle and fort of Ballyleig otherwise Bealaleig, and 300a, then or late in the tenure of sir Richard Greame, knt., lying about said castle, and next adjoining to the river Shannon. [?]
CPR Leathanach: 360b
1632
St. Johnston
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 7 Car.I
1639
St. Johnstone
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 21 Car.I
1644
Bēl Āth Laogh
O Mealláin Leathanach: 28
1654-56
the Corporation of St. Johnstowne
CS X Leathanach: 46
1655
[pictiúr de bhaile gan ainm sa suíomh seo]
DS
1655
[pictiúir de bhaile ar an suíomh seo sa mhapa]
DS
c.1660
Corporacōn of St. Johnstowne
BSD Leathanach: 169
1661
Ballinalie al’ St. Johnstowne
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 10 Car.II
1682
“..the antientes Corporation in the County called by the name of St. Johnstowne antiently called Belanalee, signifying calves.”
“St Johnstown antiently called Belanelee...” sa trascríobh a deineadh ar an ls. céanna in Gillespie, ‘Longford’.
JACAS Imleabhar: I (3), Nóta: N. Dowdall
1682
“..the antientest Corporation in the County called by the name of St Johnstown antiently called Belanelee, signifying calves.”
Dowdall
c.1700
“..a corporation town called St. Johnstowne in Irish Bellanaly...”
Robt. Downing, in JACAS I, uimh. 3 Leathanach: 24
1714
Ballnallee al St. Johns Town
Moll Map
1813
St. Johnstown or Ballinalee
Edgeworth
1835
Ballinalee or St Johnstown
BS:AL
1835
St Johnstone
Inq. C I:AL
1835
Ballanile
Níl an tagairt seo le fáil san fhoinse seo.
Inq. J I:AL
1835
Bél Ath na laoigh, “mouth of the ford of the calves”
nóta le seo: “local and correct”
OD:AL
1835
Ballanile
Inq. J I:AL
1908
Béul Átha na Laogh, “ mouth of ford of the calves” “Ballinalee was formerly called St. Johnstown, because a monastery erected here at an early period was dedicated to St. John the Baptist.”
MacGivney Leathanach: 32, 33
2007
balnəˈliː
Áit.

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