Na Mínte/Mintiaghs or Barr of Inch

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civil parish

Na Mínte

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(Irish)

Mintiaghs or Barr of Inch

(English)

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Glossary

mín

English mountain pasture

Hierarchy

county

Dún na nGall/Donegal

barony

Inis Eoghain Thiar/Inishowen West

Explanatory note

English

the smooth grassy patches, the mountain pastures

Centrepoint

55.2116, -7.39979latitude, longitude

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Archival records

Historical references

n/a	Féach Na Mínte, Meentagh, Na Mínte Móra, Meentagh More, DG: E 7	Nóta Nóta eolais
1654	a mountaine called Mintogh	CS III 10 Civil Survey III. Counties of Donegal, Londonderry and Tyrone. (ed. Simington, 1937) Bliain: 1654
1767-1770	Mintia Lough	Crow Inishowen D835/1/1/97 Plans of the Earl of Donegall's estates in the barony of Inishowen, Co. Donegal, surveyed and measured by James Crow. 1767-1770 Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) D835/1/1
1797	Meentagh ',,.Bridge on road from Buncrana to Carn by Meentagh'	GJP (DG) GJ/1/4, 4057, Lent 1797 (lch 84 Cartlann Chontae Dhún na nGall) Grand Jury Presentments, Donegal Donegal Grand Jury assizes/presentments, 1753-1769. DonegalCA GJ/1/1. Cartlann Chontae Dhún na nGall, leagan digitithe ar fáil ag https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/
1801	Bar of Inch	McCrea DG William Mc Crea, A Map of County Donegal, 1801 Nóta: Cóip san Oifig Logainmneacha, Bliain foilsithe: 1801
1805	Ballinlough or Bar of Inch	Chic. Survey A survey of the estate of Lord Spencer Stanley Chichester in the barony of Ennishowen, Co. Donegal and in the liberties of Londonderry, by Sherrards and Brassington. NLI 21.F. 19
1812	Bar of Inch or Mintias	CGn. 650.220.446367 Clárlann na nGníomhas/Registry of Deeds Nóta: Tagraítear d'imleabhar, leathanach, gníomhas./Reference to volume, page, deed.
1835	Barr of Inch or Mintiaghs	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1835	Mínteacha ‘smooth faces of the mountain, green smooth mountain patches of pasturage (local)’	OD:AL 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
1969	Na Mínte [Nə ˈm´iːN´t´ə]	Dial. Urris. Leathanach: 113 Evans, Emrys (1969) 'The Irish Dialect of Urris, Inishowen, Co. Donegal' in Oftedal, Magne (eag.) Lochlann, A Review of Celtic Studies, Imleabhar IV, lgh.1-130
1969	g′l′aɴə ˈm′iːn′t′ɛ	LASID IV, 30 Linguistic Atlas and Survey of Irish Dialects I (1958), II (1964), III (1966), IV (1969) Údar: H. Wagner

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