Ó Muraile, N. (1997). Late medieval Gaelic surveys of Counties Mayo and Sligo. Grp Stud Ir Hist Settl Newsl 8. Vol 8, pp. 1-5.

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Title:		 Late medieval Gaelic surveys of Counties Mayo and Sligo
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Issue:		 Grp Stud Ir Hist Settl Newsl 8
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Series:		 Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement Newsletter
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Volume:		 8
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Page Start/End:		 1 - 5
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Abstract:		 Following an overview of English land surveys and related administrative records dealing with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mayo and Sligo, various near-complementary Gaelic documents are discussed. One group of documents includes a prose tract compiled by Giolla àosa Mac Fir Bhisigh in c 1397--1418 about the Uí Fhiachrach population group and appears in the Book of Lecan. This lists the lands then controlled by the Ó Dubhda (O Dowd) king of Uí Fhiachrach and the families who lived there. The tract, which deals with nearly 220 place-names and c 190 surnames in the baronies of Carra, Kilmaine and Tirawley (Co Mayo) and of Tireragh (Co Sligo), is compared with a related genealogical poem compiled by Giolla àosa in 1417 that contains only 170 place-names (and 190 surnames) and with a recension of the prose tract in Dubhaltach Mac Fir Bhisigh's Book of Genealogies (1650). A second group of documents -- the late sixteenth-century Seanchas Búrcach in Trinity College Dublin -- includes a rental in Irish of the Co Mayo lands belonging to the Hiberno-Norman family of Clann Uilliam àochtar (the lower MacWilliam Burkes) and lists 134 place-names. Although many ancient place-names mentioned in the Gaelic surveys can be identified with modern townlands, their exact boundaries and areas cannot now be ascertained, while other place-names may only be identifiable with the use of seventeenth-century records in Latin or English. Concludes that, when used in conjunction with other documents in Latin and English, the under-utilised Gaelic surveys can provide information about landownership patterns, toponymy and family history in later medieval Mayo and Sligo.
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Author:		 Nollaig Ó Muraile
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Other Person/Org:		 Greg T G F Fewer (Abstract author)
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Year of Publication:		 1997
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MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods)
Gaelic Surveys (Auto Detected Subject)
English Land Surveys (Auto Detected Subject)
1417 (Auto Detected Temporal)
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Created Date:		 20 Jan 2002