Béal Átha Clocháin/Ballycloghan

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Béal Átha Clocháin

genitive: Bhéal Átha Clocháin

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(Irish)

Ballycloghan

(English)

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Glossary

áth

English ford

béal

English opening, approach, mouth

clochán

English stepping-stones, causeway; old stone structure

Hierarchy

county

An Longfort/Longford

barony

Maigh Dumha/Moydow

civil parish

Cill Ghlas/Kilglass

Explanatory note

English

ford-mouth of (the) stepping stones, stone structure

Centrepoint

53.6486, -7.70096latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1612	Bellacloghan	Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.1 Ionchoisní Chúige Laighean (1826) - Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum repertorium I Bliain: 1595 -1698, Bliain: 1550C-1690
1629	Belacloghan	Cotton Map Cotton Map
1655	Ballyclogher	DS Down Survey (Barony Maps - Hiberniae Regnum, 1654, cóipeanna a rinne an tSuirbhéireacht Ordanáis ó na bunchóipeanna i bPáras, 1908) Bliain foilsithe: 1655-7
1660	Ballyclogher	BSD Leathanach: 139 Books of Survey and Distribution Bliain: 1660c
1671	Ballyghlogh alias Ballyclogher	ASE Leathanach: 228 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
1813	Ballycloghan	Edgeworth A map of the county of Longford, William Edgeworth (1813); 4 leathanach (W. Faden, Londain a d’fhoilsigh, 1814)
1835	Ballycloghan	BS:AL Imleabhar: C108, Leathanach: 24 Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1835	Ballycloghan	Edgeworth Map:AL A map of the county of Longford, William Edgeworth (1813) ex AL
1835	Ballyclogher	Jessop, Rev. R.:AL Rev. R Jessop:AL
1835	Ballycloghan	J Robison T.?P.:AL J Robison T.?P.:AL (Lo)
1835	Ballycloghan	HCER 1826:AL House of Commons Education Report 1826 as AL Bliain: 1835
1835	Ballyclogher	DS:AL Down Survey (1656-1658), foinse in Ainmleabhar na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis / Source in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks
1835	Baile clocháin 'town of stony ford'	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
1908	Baile clocháin 'town of stony ford'	MacGivney Leathanach: 40 Place names of the County Longford. Correctly spelled in Irish and fully explained in English, with notes and illustrations by Rev. Joseph MacGivney
2008	baliˑˈklɑhən

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