BROWSE
townland
Baile Críonaire Íochtarach
genitive: Bhaile Críonaire Íochtarach
(Irish)
Ballycreen Lower
(English)

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52.8927, -6.33854latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1605
Ballicreiry
59
PN Wicklow
1606
Balliecreerie
CPR
1617
Ballicreer
Inq. Lag.
1641
Ballekirryn
Dep. 1641
1641
Ballekirryne
Dep. 1641
1641
Ballynekirran
Dep. 1641
1641
Ballicreene
59
PN Wicklow
1655-7
Ballecreenery
DS
1660c
Ballycreenery
BSD (CM)
1660c
Ballycronery
BSD (CM)
1667
Ballykriery als. Ballycriny als. Ballycrine
ASE
1668
Ballycreene
HMR (CM)
1668
Part Ballyecreene
HMR (CM)
1685c
Ballecrenory
Hib. Del.
1716
Ballycreary als. Ballycreery als. Ballycreen
CGn.
1728
BallyCreene als. Ballycriny
CGn.
1732
Ballycreen
Prerogative Wills
1746
Ballycreen
CGn.
1750
Ballacreen
Dublin Wills
1760
Lower-B:creen, Upper-B:creen
Nevill 1760
1769
Ballycreary ows. Ballycrean
CGn.
1793
Ballycreen
Dublin Wills
1801
Lower / Upper Ballycreene
CGn.
1817
Ballycreen
GJR 1818 (CM)
1820
Ballacreon
GJR 1819-21 (CM)
1825
Lower-B:creen, Upper-B:creen
TAB
1838
Ballycreenery
CGn.
1839
Ballycreen Lower
BS:AL Leathanach: CM005,35
1839
Ballycreen Lower
Fagan, W.B.:AL Leathanach: CM005,35
1839
Lower B.creen
Allen Nevill Map:AL (CM) Leathanach: CM005,35
1839
Ballycreen Lower Townland
"See Upper" [OD Nóta];
Rec. Name:AL Leathanach: CM005,35
1839
Baile críon, 'withered town'
OD:AL Leathanach: CM005,27
1931
Ballycreen - was pronounced 'Ballagh-reen' or 'Ballachreen'... This seems to suggest 'cr' followed by broad vowel. Old forms of the name are 'Balliecreerie... Ballicreiry...Balicreer... it is spelled 'Balecreenery' on the Down Survey barony maps: perhaps this is a misspelling of 'Ballycreevery', and the modern form 'Ballycreen' may be a corruption: originally 'Baile craobhaire' or 'Baile a(n) chraobhaire'? meaning 'a place covered in bushes' (Joyce, i. 501). But perhaps Hamilton's 'Baile crionaigh' is better. (102-3)
LPN
1939
'Shee 'anna' ('Beg' and 'More') Ballina-guppoge' 'Balla-creen' 'Ballina-cur'. 358.
LPN

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