An tOileán Mór/Big Island

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An tOileán Mór

genitive: an Oileáin Mhóir

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(Irish)

Big Island

(English)

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mór

English great, big

oileán

English island

Hierarchy

county

Loch Garman/Wexford

barony

Síol Maoluír Thoir/Shelmaliere East

civil parish

Paróiste Mhaighréide/Saint Margaret's

Centrepoint

52.361, -6.40116latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1654	Ye Great Island (Esmond)	CS (LG) Leathanach: 113 Civil Survey IX. County of Wexford (Simington ed., 1953) Bliain: 1654
1655c	Great Island,	DS Down Survey (Barony Maps - Hiberniae Regnum, 1654, cóipeanna a rinne an tSuirbhéireacht Ordanáis ó na bunchóipeanna i bPáras, 1908) Bliain foilsithe: 1655-7
1667	the great Island (Albemarle)	ASE Leathanach: 144 Abstracts of Grants of Lands..under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, A.D.1666-1684 (Appendix to Fifteenth Annual Report from the Commissioners of Public Records of Ireland, 45-280; 1825) Bliain: 1666-84
1729	The Great Island and Island or Killagh (Monck-Lee)	CGn. Imleabhar: 62, Leathanach: 201, Uimhir: 42534 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1739	The Great Island (Monck-Holroyd)	CGn. Imleabhar: 97, Leathanach: 212, Uimhir: 68471 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1739	Ye Great Island (Esmond – Croker)	CGn. Imleabhar: 93, Leathanach: 585, Uimhir: 67007 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1816	Great Island	Gill (Wexford) Grand Jury Map of Wexford, Valentine Gill, 1811 & 1816 Bliain: 1811 & 1816
1830c	Big Island (Ardcolm)	TAB Imleabhar: 9 Tithe Composition (Applotment) Book (imleabhair lámhscríofa ó c. 1830 atá ar coimeád sa Chartlann Náisiúnta) Bliain: 1824–40, Nóta: Go minic, tugtar ainm an pharóiste, nó eolas eile i gcolún na nótaí.
1837	There were religious houses on each of the little islands of Beg Erin and Derinis	Top. Dict. Imleabhar: II, Leathanach: 706 S. Lewis. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland I-II (1837)
1840	I am of the opinion that the Dair-inis of St Cavan above mentioned at the year 819 was the present island called the Great Island lying in the Bay of Wexford opposite the old church of Ard cavan	LSO (LG) Leathanach: 331 Litreacha na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis, Co. Loch Garman / Ordnance Survey letters, Co. Wexford

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