BROWSE
townland
Baile an Stafardaigh
genitive: Bhaile an Stafardaigh
(Irish)
Staffordstown
(English)

Hierarchy

county

barony

municipal district

civil parish

electoral division

Explanatory note

  • Gaeilge

    the townland of An Stafardach


    An Stafardach - leagan Gaeilge den tsloinne Angla-Normannach Stafford.

  • English

    the townland of An Stafardach


    An Stafardach - Irish language form of the Anglo-Norman surname Stafford.

Centrepoint

53.4245, -6.54559latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1606-7
Staffordston
Inq. Lag. JI 2
1624
Staffordston
Inq. Lag. JI 69
1629
Staffordston
Roanston, Hardleston, Arrebothan, Staffordston, Browneston & Fidorth
Inq. Lag. CI 51
1640c
Staffordston
Inq. Lag. CI 161
1642
Staffords towne (Joseph Blood of ...)
And the deponent Hughe Johnson of Brown Rath … deposeth That Thomas Colgan <A> of Collins towne was one of the partyes that committed the foresaid Robbery with the assistance of xxty persons of men & women from Blackall in the County of Meath and some 5 or 6 persons more from Collins towne aforesaid vnknowne by name to this examinant Att or about which tyme Joseph Blood of Staffords towne & George Lea of Kilcloone Pollenen wer robbed and despoyled by their neighbours of the Irishry Hughe Johnson Jur 9to ffebr 1641 Depositions MS 816, fols 117r-118v
Dep. 1641
1654
Staffordstowne
Bounded on the east with the lands of Cornellstowne on the west with the lands of Brownestowne & Brownerath on the north with the lands of Wyanstowne & on the South with-the lands of Butlerstown in the Barrony of Dunboyne
CS V 88
1655-7
Staffordstowne
DS
1657
Stafowdestown
DS (P, TCD)
1660c
Staffordstowne
BSD (Mí)
1663
Staffordstowne
888. Henry Rochfort, esquire, claims the town and lands of Kilbride, cum pertinent; Little Vesselstowne; 11 tenements and 120 acres of land with common for all manner of cattle in the town of Kells; a house south-west the cross; a bouse next the Carrig Gate; a house in Maudlin Street; a house next St John's Gate; another house joining thereto; 4 houses in the corner north-east the cross; a house by east the last 4 houses; a little park and yard called Boyanagh; Rochfort's lands on both sides the Blackewater; 3 ridges in Maudlin Street called Rochfort's land 3 acres in Molinaghcreagh; 1 acre called the Silver Acre; 6/z acres, 1 stang without Maudlin Gate; 6 acres lying between the 2 lands leading to Tatrath and Kilmainham; 7 acres, 4 acres called Cartigtonin; 2 acres called Curright, both within 1 close; juxta fontem leprosi, 1/2 acres, all in Kells, set out to Lieutenant-colonel Stevens his company; the towns and lands of Veslingstowne, Cornelstowne, Cahellstowne, Ballmacolly, all barony Dunboyne, county Meath, set out to Colonel Henry Cromwell's troops; the towns and lands of Corkestowne, Roanstowne, Wyanstowne, Harloggstowne, Staffordstowne, Brownestowne, parish Ballmaglassan, barony Rathouth. set out to Captain Lisle's troop; the town and lands of Butlerstowne; in Dromlargin 3 tenements and 60 acres of land; in Tollaghmedan 13 acres; Wrightowne and Donaghtowne; a moiety
Court of Claims 349
1666
Staffordstowne
43. ARTHUR Lord Viscount RANELAGH…Brownestowne, Little-Blackhall (part), and Staffordstowne (part), 134 a…31d. ; bar. Ratoath, co. Meath ASE 85
ASE
1667
staffordstowne
1. ROBERT SHIELD esq—Staffordstowne (part), 100a…Wyanstowne, 119 a…Harleckstowne’ 96 a…Roanstowne, 48 a…Crookestowne or Cookstowne, 113 a… Growstowne, 192 a…Moylegan, 72 a…bar. Ratoath… ASE 130
ASE
1669
Staffordstowne
Arthur, Visc. Ranelagh…Brownstowne, Little Blackhall, Staffordstowne, 193 acres…bar. Ratoath ASE 197
ASE
1685c
Staffordsto
Hib. Del.
1739
Staffordstowne
Balyney Winston of Clonebrany ... Dollysgrove otherwise Brownstown Staffordstowne & Little Blackhall in the Barony of Ratoath
CGn. 96.448.68853
1812
Staffordstown
Larkin (Mí)
1825
Staffordstown
TAB
1836
Staffordston
Inq. J I:AL Leathanach: Mí010,14
1836
Staffordstown
Larkin (Mí):AL Leathanach: Mí010,14
1836
Staffordstown
GJRates (Old Docket): AL Leathanach: Mí010,14
1836
Staffordstown
HCSV:AL Leathanach: Mí010,14
1836
Staffordeston
Inq. C I:AL Leathanach: Mí010,14
1836
Staffordstown
OD:AL Leathanach: Mí010,14
1836
Staffordstowne
DS Ref.:AL Leathanach: Mí010,14
1836
Sta Forrdestowne
DS Map:AL Leathanach: Mí010,14

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