PLACE
NAMES IN
COUNTY
LOUTH -
DATABASE.
CONTENTS
of
DATABASE.
The
database
includes
names of
baronies,
towns,
civil
parishes,
townlands,
villages,
streets,
lanes and
localities
that
existed in
the main
from pre
1900. In
addition
for
administrative
areas the
current
Irish
(Gaelic) form
is given.
In the
case of
baronies,
towns
(with
legally
defined
boundaries),
boroughs,
civil
parishes
and townlands
these are
all
administrative
areas that
have been
mapped.
See on
County
Louth Home
page under
'Divisions'
for
further
information
on these
districts.
In the
case of
non
administrative
areas such
as
villages,
streets,
lanes,
localities,
mountain
ridges etc. the
name of
the townland
where
situated
is given.
If a place
name such
as a
street
name
appeared
in more
than one
record it
is listed
each time
in order
to give
some idea
of the
time
period it
was in
existence.
For all
place
names the
source
record and
year of
publication
is given:
e.g. 'C 1851' means
the Census
of
Population
1851.
NOTE: This database is a guideline only as to the names of places and where situated. It is not to be taken as the legal definition of any particular place or its situation.
SOURCES USED
| C | 1851 | = |
Census
of
Population
1851 |
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| FWS | 1908 | = |
Stubbs,
Major
Gen
F.W.,
Place
Names
in
the
County
of
Louth,
County
Louth
Archaeological
Journal,
Vol.
2
(no.1,
2,
3
&
4),
Dundalk,
1908
[these articles
were also
published
in
book
form]. Only place names extracted where the name of the townland situated in was given. Further information such as Irish form of name, definition etc. is available in above articles by Major Gen. F.W. Stubbs. |
||
| GV | 1851 | = |
Griffith,
Richard,
Valuation
of
Rateable
Property
in
Ireland,
County
Louth,
Borough
of
Drogheda,
1851. |
||
| GV | 1854 | = |
Griffith,
Richard,
Valuation
of
Rateable
Property
in
Ireland,
County
Louth,
County
Louth
excluding
Borough
of
Drogheda,
1854. |
||
| JB | 1997 | = |
Bradley,
John,
Drogheda
-
Its
Topography
and
Medieval
Layout,
Aspects
of
the
History
of
Drogheda
-
Number
1,
Drogheda,
1997,
p.30. The modern street names of place names found in manuscripts of the 13th to 15th century are given on page 30 of this publication. |
||
| L | (-) | = | Legislation passed in a particular year i.e.: | ||
| L | 2003 |
The
Placenames
(Co.
Louth)
Order
2003
(no.
521
of
2003) |
|||
| M(-) | (-) | = | Miscellaneous sources e.g. | ||
| M(d) | 1835 | = a deed of 1835 | |||
| M(m) | 1886 | = a manuscript of 1886 | |||
| M(n) | 1930 |
=
a
newspaper
of
1930 |
|||
| TAB(-) | (-) | = |
Tithe
Applotment
Books,
for
particular
parish
&
with
the
year
survey
completed.
All townland names are given that appeared on this survey for the civil parishes below together with the standardised version of the name. |
||
| TAB(A) | 1830? |
Tithe
Applotment
Books,
Ardee
Parish,
not
dated
but
possibly
surveyed
1830,
National
Archives
Ref:
20/29. |
|||
| PSE | 1938 | = |
Irish
Manuscripts
Commission,
Primary
School
Essays
1938,
Irish
Folklore
Department,
University
College,
Dublin,
MSS.
S.670
&
S.671,
Kilsaran
School
(part). |
||
| T | 1885 | = |
'Registration
of
Births
and
Deaths,
Ireland
-
component
parts
of
each
registration
district', Ardee and Dundalk Unions 1885, in Handran George B (ed), Townlands in Poor Law Unions - A Reprint of Poor Law Union Pamplets of the General Registrar's Office, Massachusetts, 1997 |
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| T | 1886 | = | 'Registration of Births and Deaths, Ireland - component parts of each registration district', Drogheda Union 1886, in Handran George B (ed), Townlands in Poor Law Unions - A Reprint of Poor Law Union Pamplets of the General Registrar's Office, Massachusetts, 1997 | ||
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Last
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2004