Na Méirsí Íochtaracha/Marshes Lower

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Na Méirsí Íochtaracha

genitive: na Méirsí Íochtaracha

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(Irish)

Marshes Lower

(English)

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Hierarchy

county

Lú/Louth

barony

Dún Dealgan Uachtarach/Dundalk Upper

civil parish

Dún Dealgan/Dundalk

Centrepoint

54.0028, -6.38319latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1655	pt. of Dundalk Towland (sic)	DS Down Survey (Barony Maps - Hiberniae Regnum, 1654, cóipeanna a rinne an tSuirbhéireacht Ordanáis ó na bunchóipeanna i bPáras, 1908) Bliain foilsithe: 1655-7
1683	Dundalke land	Hib. Del. Hiberniæ Delineatio, William Petty Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Bliain foilsithe: 1685, Foilsitheoir: Irish University Press (1969)
1777	The Merches	TS Foinse de chuid Chontae Lú Bliain: 1777
1785c	Marshes Lower	Clanbrassil Leathanach: 54 'Two eighteenth-century maps of the Clanbrassil Estate, Dundalk'
1836	Upper Merches	AL Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook. Le fáil sa Chartlann Náisiúnta / Available in the National Archives Bliain: 1830-42, Nóta: Féach réamhrá Logainmneacha na hÉireann I: Contae Luimnigh lch. xvi mar a dtugtar eolas faoin bhfoinse seo.
1836	na meirsi uachtracha I think this should be upper Marshes	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	Lower Merches	AL Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook. Le fáil sa Chartlann Náisiúnta / Available in the National Archives Bliain: 1830-42, Nóta: Féach réamhrá Logainmneacha na hÉireann I: Contae Luimnigh lch. xvi mar a dtugtar eolas faoin bhfoinse seo.
1836	na meirsi iachtracha	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
1845c	na Meirsigh "Chuadhmar síos na Meirsigh / Go h-aerach is thríd Dún Dealg"—Iomáin Áth' na gCasán (ex LS Niocláis Uí Chearnaigh, RIA 23 E 12)	Céad CU Leathanach: 39 Céad de Cheoltaibh Uladh (eag. Ó Muirgheasa). Baile Átha Cliath, 1915.

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