Béal Átha na Lao/Ballinalee or Saintjohnstown

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Béal Átha na Lao

genitive: Bhéal Átha na Lao

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(Irish)

Ballinalee or Saintjohnstown

(English)

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Glossary

áth

English ford

béal

English opening, approach, mouth

lao

English calf

Hierarchy

county

An Longfort/Longford

barony

Gránard/Granard

civil parish

Cluain Brónaigh/Clonbroney

Centrepoint

53.7765, -7.65824latitude, longitude

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Historical references

	Béal Átha na Lao	Cártaí Móra Nóta: (PO) Cártaí Cartlainne de chuid an Bhrainse Logainmeacha
n/a	Béal Átha na Lao	Moladh Moladh tugtha ag an mBrainse Logainmneacha
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 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
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 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
1632	St. Johnston	Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 7 Car.I Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1639	St. Johnstone	Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 21 Car.I Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1644	Bēl Āth Laogh	O Mealláin Leathanach: 28 'Cín Lae Uí Mhealláin' Bliain: 1641-47
1654-56	the Corporation of St. Johnstowne	CS X Leathanach: 46 Civil Survey X. Supplementary vol. (ed. Simington, 1961) Bliain: 1654
1655	[pictiúr de bhaile gan ainm sa suíomh seo]	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	[pictiúir de bhaile ar an suíomh seo sa mhapa]	DS Down Survey (Barony Maps - Hiberniae Regnum, 1654, cóipeanna a rinne an tSuirbhéireacht Ordanáis ó na bunchóipeanna i bPáras, 1908) Bliain foilsithe: 1655-7
c.1660	Corporacōn of St. Johnstowne	BSD Leathanach: 169 Books of Survey and Distribution Bliain: 1660c
1661	Ballinalie al’ St. Johnstowne	Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 10 Car.II Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
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 Journal of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Antiquarian Society
1682	“..the antientest Corporation in the County called by the name of St Johnstown antiently called Belanelee, signifying calves.”	Dowdall Description of the county of Longford by N. Dowdall, 1682. NLI Mss. 10,224 - 10,225
c.1700	“..a corporation town called St. Johnstowne in Irish Bellanaly...”	Robt. Downing, in JACAS I, uimh. 3 Leathanach: 24 Robert Downing, in The Journal of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Antiquarian Society, Imleabhar I, Uimhir 3
1714	Ballnallee al St. Johns Town	Moll Map A New Map of Ireland, divided into its Provinces, Counties and Baronies, wherein are distinguished the Bishoprics Bliain foilsithe: 1714, Údar: Hermon Moll
1813	St. Johnstown or Ballinalee	Edgeworth A map of the county of Longford, William Edgeworth (1813); 4 leathanach (W. Faden, Londain a d’fhoilsigh, 1814)
1835	Ballinalee or St Johnstown	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1835	St Johnstone	Inq. C I:AL Inquisition de chuid aimsir Charles I in AL Bliain: 1830/1840idí
1835	Ballanile Níl an tagairt seo le fáil san fhoinse seo.	Inq. J I:AL Ionchoisní Shéamais I, foinse in AL / Inquisitions James I, source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830/1840idí
1835	Bél Ath na laoigh, “mouth of the ford of the calves” nóta le seo: “local and correct”	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
1835	Ballanile	Inq. J I:AL Ionchoisní Shéamais I, foinse in AL / Inquisitions James I, source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830/1840idí
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 Place names of the County Longford. Correctly spelled in Irish and fully explained in English, with notes and illustrations by Rev. Joseph MacGivney
2007	balnəˈliː	Áit. Fianaise áitiúil, ar théip go hiondúil, ar coimeád i gcartlann an Bhrainse Logainmneacha. Bliain: 1952-

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