Baile Huigín/Higginstown

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townland

Baile Huigín

genitive: Bhaile Huigín

(Irish)

Higginstown

(English)

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Glossary

baile

English townland, town, homestead

Hierarchy

county

An Longfort/Longford

barony

Gránard/Granard

civil parish

Gránard/Granard

Centrepoint

53.7701, -7.48451latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1612	Ballygin [?]	Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.1 Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1612	Ballihiggin	CPR Leathanach: 245a 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
1620	Higginstown	CPR Leathanach: 452a 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	Higginston	Cotton Map Cotton Map
1632	Higginston	Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 9 Car.1 Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1659	Ballymorris and Higgins towne	Cen. 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
c.1660	Higginstowne	BSD Leathanach: 161 Books of Survey and Distribution Bliain: 1660c
1724	Ballyhiggen	CGn. Leathanach: 45.39.27616 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1752	Ballyhiggen	CGn. Leathanach: 157.526.105757 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1813	Higginstown	Edgeworth A map of the county of Longford, William Edgeworth (1813); 4 leathanach (W. Faden, Londain a d’fhoilsigh, 1814)
1836	Higginstown	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1836	Higginston	Inq. C I:AL Inquisition de chuid aimsir Charles I in AL Bliain: 1830/1840idí
1836	Baile Ui Uigín, “O’ Higgin’s land”	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	Ígin	pl:AL Nóta nó leagan Gaeilge scríofa i bpeann luaidhe in AL/ Note or Irish form written in pencil in AL Bliain: 1838
1836	...contains the house Demesne etc. of Higginstown...	Desc. Rem.:AL Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40
1836	Higginstown	Edgeworth Map (AL) Edgeworth Map:AL - Longford & Roscommon
1836	Higginstown	Greville Maps:AL Greville Maps:AL
1908	“From the Genealogical Map of Ireland it will be seen that O’ Higgins is a very old name in the neighbourhood of Granard..”	MacGivney Leathanach: 24, 25 Place names of the County Longford. Correctly spelled in Irish and fully explained in English, with notes and illustrations by Rev. Joseph MacGivney
1908	Higginstown, Tóchar na Móna, “causeway of the bog”	MacGivney Leathanach: 135 Place names of the County Longford. Correctly spelled in Irish and fully explained in English, with notes and illustrations by Rev. Joseph MacGivney
2007	ˈhiginztoun	Áit. Fianaise áitiúil, ar théip go hiondúil, ar coimeád i gcartlann an Bhrainse Logainmneacha. Bliain: 1952-

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