Baile na hUamha/Cavetown or Ballynahoogh

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townland

Baile na hUamha

genitive: Bhaile na hUamha

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(Irish)

Cavetown or Ballynahoogh

(English)

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Glossary

baile

English townland, town, homestead

uaimh, óin, ón

English cave, souterrain

Hierarchy

county

Ros Comáin/Roscommon

barony

Mainistir na Búille/Boyle

civil parish

Díseart Nuan/Estersnow

Centrepoint

53.9299, -8.23753latitude, longitude

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Archival records

Historical references

1837	Cavetown	BS:AL Leathanach: RC030,8 Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1837	Ballinahoogh Cavetown	Co. Bk. 1821:AL Leathanach: RC030,8 County Book 1821, foinse in AL / source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks.
1837	Ballinahoogh Cavetown	S&V:AL Leathanach: RC030,8 Report from the Select Committee on the Survey and Valuation of Ireland (1824) in AL Bliain: 1830-40
1837	Cavetown	CM:AL Leathanach: RC030,8 Grand Jury County Map ex Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain foilsithe: 1835C
1837	Cavetown (called in Irish Ballinahoogh) "(called in Irish Ballinahoogh)" [Crofton, M.];	Crofton, M.:AL Leathanach: RC030,8 Crofton, M.:AL
1837	Cavetown	Crawford, Rev. T.:AL Leathanach: RC030,8 Crawford, Rev. T.:AL
1837	Baile na huamha	ARÉ:AL Leathanach: RC030,8 Tagairt do Annála Ríoghachta Éireann in AL
1837	Baile na húmhach, 'town of the Cave' "There is a remarkable cave here" [OD Nóta]; "remains of a castle within 7 perches of the fishhouse and between the two lakes of Clogher & Cavetown" [dúch];	OD:AL Leathanach: RC030,8 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	Cavetown or Ballynahoogh	OD:AL Leathanach: RC030,8 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 na Húmhach "a cave 11 perches and more" [pl];	pl:AL Leathanach: RC030,8 Nóta nó leagan Gaeilge scríofa i bpeann luaidhe in AL/ Note or Irish form written in pencil in AL Bliain: 1838
1837	[Ballynahoogh or Cavetown] "There is a gentleman's seat here 2 stories high, a tower on the lough there whose face is 281 feet above the level of the sea, 2 stone obelisks,one on the N. side of the townland, and the other in the lough, a boat house in ruins, a well called Tubber Lunnaun, and a stream which runs from Clogher Lough to Cavetown Lough." [Desc. Rem.];	Desc. Rem.:AL Leathanach: RC030,8 Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40

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