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Shelmaliere West
West Shelmaliere, also called Shelmaliere West, () is a historical barony in southwest County Wexford, Ireland. Baronies were mainly cadastral rather than administrative units. They acquired modest local taxation and spending functions in the 19th century before being superseded by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. History The barony takes its name from the local tribe, the Shelmalier (Síol Maél Uidir, "seed of bald Uidir"). Geography West Shelmaliere is in the south of the county, west of the River Slaney and east of the Owenduff River. List of settlements Settlements within the historical barony of West Shelmaliere include: *Ballyhogue *Barntown * Killurin *Newbawn *Taghmon * Wellingtonbridge *Wexford Wexford ( ; archaic Yola dialect, Yola: ''Weiseforthe'') is the county town of County Wexford, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Wexford lies on the south side of Wexford Harbour, the estuary of the River Slaney near the southeastern corner of the ... Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenous language, indigenous to the island of Ireland. It was the majority of the population's first language until the 19th century, when English (language), English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century, in what is sometimes characterised as a result of linguistic imperialism. Today, Irish is still commonly spoken as a first language in Ireland's Gaeltacht regions, in which 2% of Ireland's population lived in 2022. The total number of people (aged 3 and over) in Ireland who declared they could speak Irish in April 2022 was 1,873,997, representing 40% of respondents, but of these, 472,887 said they never spoke it and a further 551,993 said they only spoke it within the education system. Linguistic analyses o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medbh McGuckian
Medbh McGuckian (born as Maeve McCaughan on 12 August 1950) is a poet from Northern Ireland. Biography She was born the third of six children as Maeve McCaughan to Hugh and Margaret McCaughan in North Belfast. Her father was a school headmaster and her mother an influential art and music enthusiast.Irish women writers: an A-to-Z guide by Alexander G. Gonzalez p. 200. Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT, 2006. She was educated at Holy Family Primary School and Dominican College, Fortwilliam and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972 and a |
Wellingtonbridge
Wellingtonbridge (), also spelled Wellington Bridge, is a village in south County Wexford, Ireland. It lies some 24 km west of Wexford and 28 km east of Waterford, at the intersection of the R733 and R736 regional roads. It was historically called ''Ballyowen'' () after the townland it occupies. Facilities The village has a wide array of facilities and amenities including a department store, pharmacy, supermarket, garden centre, café, beauty salon, pub/restaurant, opticians, vet, hair salon, furniture shop, barbers, filling station, car dealer, and playground. Transport Rail The village was on the Limerick-Rosslare railway line: Wellingtonbridge railway station, which was formerly an important point for the loading of sugar beet, opened on 1 August 1906 and closed on 18 September 2010. Bus The rail service was replaced by a revised Bus Éireann route 370 service from Monday 20 September 2010. It is also served by Local Link route 388 as well as once-weekly Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taghmon
Taghmon (; ) is a village in County Wexford, Ireland. It lies on the R738 regional road, west of Wexford town and east-southeast of New Ross. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name. History It can be established, from historical records, that the area now comprising the village of Taghmon has been inhabited since at least as early as 595 AD. Saint Fintan Munnu was granted land there in ''circa'' 597 by a chieftain, Dímma mac Áeda Croin who later became a cleric and was buried among the monks at the monastery.Charles-Edwards, T.M. ''Early Christian Ireland'' page 117. Cambridge University Press, 8 January 2001. His followers, were residing in the area then known as 'Achadh Liathdrom', which translates as 'the grey field on (or near) the ridge of a hill'. Geography Many Irish place names are topographically descriptive, and 'Achadh Liathdrom' is no exception. From the western side of the Forth Mountain, as it slopes down towards Ballintlea, a suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newbawn
Newbawn () is a small village located in the southwest of County Wexford, Ireland. It is south-east of New Ross, and west of Wexford town, and is on the R735 regional road about south of the N25 national primary road. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name. Etymology Newbawn in the Irish language is . means 'new'. A is literally a walled enclosure. Often, this is applied to the wall that encloses the yard surrounding a castle, though this may or may not be the meaning here. It can also mean an enclosure for cows. History There is a poorly preserved ''Portal tomb'' (sometimes called a Dolmen) located at Collopswell, near Newbawn, which dates from the Neolithic period. The area was controlled by the Devereux family of Adamstown and Ballymagir for hundreds of years soon after the arrival of the Normans (1169). They acquired the area from the ''de Headon'' family in the late 13th century. Newbawn was part of the 'Manor of Colpe', which in 1669 was g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killurin, County Wexford
Killurin () is a village in County Wexford, Ireland on the R730 regional road. Sited along the banks of the River Slaney, it is approximately 10 kilometres north-west of Wexford town. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name. History Castle A Norman castle was built at the Deeps (Crossabeg) on the edge of the River Slaney in the 14th or 15th century. This castle, called the Deeps Castle, although now in ruins, is notable as one of the few remaining examples of a tower house of its kind. Forty years after Oliver Cromwell's invasion of Wexford, William of Orange fought and defeated the troops of his brother-in law, James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Afterwards James is said to have stayed in hiding at the Deeps Castle. The castle itself has since fallen into disrepair. The main chimney in the south wall collapsed into the building, weakening the entire structure and altering the distinctive skyline of the area. The Deeps Castle is not actua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barntown
Barntown () is a townland and village in County Wexford, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, located just outside the town of Wexford. As of the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census, Barntown had a population of 505 people. The remains of Barntown Castle, a Norman Ireland, Norman tower house, lies to the east of the village of Barntown. It was built by the Roche family in the 15th or 16th century, and was used as a watchtower and storehouse for Ferrycarrig Castle. St Alphonsus Church is the main church of the parish. It was designed by Augustus Pugin, Augustus Welby Pugin, and built in 1848 by the Very Rev Patrick Murphy. Barntown was joined with the parish of cummers to found the Cummers-Barntown GAA club in 1885. References External links Official Website (archived) Townlands of County Wexford Towns and villages in County Wexfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballyhogue
Ballyhogue or Ballyhoge () is a village and census town in County Wexford, Ireland. The village, which lies in a townland and civil parish of the same name, had a population of 255 people as of the 2022 census. It is 10 km south of Enniscorthy. Evidence of ancient settlement in the area include a number of ecclesiastical sites and the remains of a hillfort to the south of the village. Some sources associate the ruined church of St. John, and its nearby graveyard, with the Knights Hospitaller. The local Roman Catholic church, Bellevue church, was built between 1858 and 1860. Depending on the sources, the designs of the church are attributed to either Augustus Pugin (1812–1852), his son Edward Welby Pugin (1834–1875), or architect James Joseph McCarthy (1817–1882). Ballyhogue National School, also known as Scoil Mhuire National School, had an enrollment of 17 pupils as of 2024. See also * Bree, County Wexford * River Slaney The River Slaney (; ) is a large river ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Slaney
The River Slaney (; ) is a large river in the southeast of Ireland. It rises on Lugnaquilla Mountain in the western Wicklow Mountains and flows west and then south through counties Wicklow, Carlow and Wexford for 117.5 km (73 mi), before entering St George's Channel in the Irish Sea at Wexford town. The estuary of the Slaney is wide and shallow and is known as Wexford Harbour. The catchment area of the River Slaney is 1,762 km2.South Eastern River Basin District Management System. Page 38 The long-term average flow rate of the River Slaney is 37.4m3/s Towns that the Slaney runs through include Stratfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelmalier
Shelmalier or Shelmaliere (Irish: ''Síol Maoluír'', from Old Irish ''Síl Máel Uidir'', "Offspring of Maeleer") is a region in County Wexford, Ireland. It comprises two historical baronies Barony may refer to: * Barony, the peerage, office of, or territory held by a baron * Barony, the title and land held in fealty by a feudal baron * Barony (county division), a type of administrative or geographical division in parts of the British ..., East Shelmaliere and West Shelmaliere. The farmers of Shelmalier were accustomed to shooting wild fowl. The area is mentioned in Patrick Joseph McCall's ballads '' Kelly the Boy from Killanne'' and ''Boolavogue''. References Wexford, County Wexford Baronies of County Wexford {{Wexford-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barony (Ireland)
In Ireland, a barony (, plural ) is a historical subdivision of a counties of Ireland, county, analogous to the hundred (county subdivision), hundreds into which the counties of England were divided. Baronies were created during the Tudor reconquest of Ireland, replacing the earlier cantreds formed after the original Norman invasion of Ireland, Norman invasion.Mac Cotter 2005, pp.327–330 Some early baronies were later subdivided into half baronies with the same standing as full baronies. Baronies were mainly cadastre, cadastral rather than administrative units. They acquired modest local taxation and spending functions in the 19th century before being superseded by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. Subsequent adjustments of county boundaries mean that some baronies now straddle two counties. The final catalogue of baronies numbered 331, with an average area of ; each county was divided, on average, into 10 or 11 baronies. Creation The island of Ireland was "shired" i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
