BROWSE
townland
Feirscill
genitive: Fheirscill
(Irish)
Ferskill
(English)

Hierarchy

county

barony

civil parish

Centrepoint

53.7556, -7.52206latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1629
-----------[istigh le Tonebardan]
Cotton Map
1655
Firskill
DS
1659
Ardvexkill ?
Ní dócha gur seo atá i gceist.
Cen. Leathanach: 459
c.1660
ffriskill
BSD Leathanach: 159
1671
Friskill
ASE Leathanach: 108
1685
Fireskill
Hib. Del.
1703
Frisken
Trustees Leathanach: 360
1764
Ferriskin
Grand Jury of Longford Leathanach: 73
1765
Friskill owse Friskin
CGn. Leathanach: 244.3.155548
1813
Ferriskhill
Edgeworth
1836
Ferriskhill
BS:AL
1836
Friskill
DS Ref.:AL
1836
Firskill
DS Map:AL
1836
a bh-feirscill, “grassy field”
OD:AL
1836
Freascaill
OD scriosta:AL
1836
a bh-firiscill
pl:AL
1836
not hill. See Indexes for a precedent
Nóta:AL
1836
Forkill
pl:AL
1836
Ferriskhill
Edgeworth Map (AL)
1836
Ferriskhill
Barbour:AL
1908
Ferskel, A bhFeirscill, “grassy field”, “Part of this townland is now Anglicised Mossvale”
MacGivney Leathanach: 117
1965
Feirscill
Cártaí Móra
2007
ˈferiskil
Áit.

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