Athlone and Bigmeadow

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townland

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county

Ros Comáin/Roscommon

barony

Baile Átha Luain Theas/Athlone South

civil parish

Paróiste Pheadair/Saint Peter's

Centrepoint

53.4156, -7.9815latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1837	Bel áith	dúch (scriosta):AL Leathanach: RC074,1 Nóta i ndúch in AL agus é scriosta/Note in ink in AL (crossed out)
1837	Athlone Town & Big Meadow "correct" [OD Nóta];	Rec. Name:AL Leathanach: RC074,1 Received Name in Ainmleabhar na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis (AL) Bliain: 1830/1840idí
1837	[Athlone] "principally consists of reclaimed bog. The largest portion of Athlone is situated upon it, including the castle, the parish church of St. Peter's & a R.C. chapel, an old sessions house, and 2 distilleries &c." [Desc. Rem.];	Desc. Rem.:AL Leathanach: RC074,1 Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40
1837	Athlone Town & Big Meadow	BS:AL Leathanach: RC074,1 Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1837	Athlone	CM:AL Leathanach: RC074,1 Grand Jury County Map ex Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain foilsithe: 1835C
1837	Athlone	S&V:AL Leathanach: RC074,1 Report from the Select Committee on the Survey and Valuation of Ireland (1824) in AL Bliain: 1830-40
1837	Athlone also Bullock	Co. Treas. Rep.:AL Leathanach: RC074,1 Co. Treas. Rep., foinse in AL / source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks.
1837	Bleáth luain "Bleáth luain, local Irish name Bleáth, being a corruption for Baile atha, town of the ford of Luan" [OD Nóta];	OD:AL Leathanach: RC074,1 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
1837	Baile atha, 'town of the ford of Luan'	OD:AL Leathanach: RC074,1 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

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