Information about Booly [Booly changed to Boley]

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Standard Name:
Booly [Booly changed to Boley]
Irish Form of Name:
Buaile
Translation:
a booley or dairy place
Civil Parish:
Lickmolassy
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Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Booly [Booly changed to Boley]
Buaile
Boolia
Boolia Boundary Sketch Map
Boolia [name left blank] County Book
Boolia [name left blank] County Map
Boolia [name left blank] H. C. Survey & Val. Reports
Buoly Inq. Temp. Gul. III
Boolia Mr. George Bethel
Boula Mr. Rush
Description:
This townland is intersected with ditches thickly planted. It contains the ruins of a convent with about 8 acres of rocks and shrubs to the W. side. There is also a spring well.
Situation:
Bounded on the N. by Fairfield in the parish of Kilmallinogue, on the East by Boolia in same parish, on the W. by Curraghmore and on the South by Gurthnacloghie.

Information From Joyce's Place Names

Translation according to P. W. Joyce:
Booley, Bola, Boola, Bool, the most usual anglicised forms of buaile, a milking or dairy-place, for which see vol. i. p. 239. Latterly the term was often applied to any cattle enclosure near the homestead where cows were brought together morning and evening and fed and milked. Boolies, the same only with the English plural: p. 11 [reproduced below].
Many of our local names - for obvious reasons - are plural, as happens in all other countries (vol. i. p.32). Very often in such cases, the Irish plural termination is rejected in anglicisation and the English plural termination s adopted.

Information From Griffith's Valution

Area in Acres, Roods and Perches:
A.R.P.
60 0 25
Land value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
£.s.d.
27 6 0
Building value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
£.s.d.
0 0 0
Total value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
£.s.d.
27 6 0
Heads of housholds living in the townland at this time:
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Townland Information

What is a townland?:
A townland is one of the smallest land divisions in Ireland. They range in size from a few acres to thousands of acres. Many are Gaelic in origin, but some came into existence after the Norman invasion of 1169
Townland:
Booly [Booly changed to Boley] is a townland.

Information From Maps

Original OS map of this area.
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Ireland was first mapped in the 1840s. These original maps are available online.
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Booly [Booly changed to Boley]
Original OS maps at the Ordnance Survey of Ireland website.
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Booly [Booly changed to Boley]
Information from the Down Survey Website.
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The Down Survey website will tell you who owned this townland in 1641 (pre Cromwell) and in 1671 (post Cromwell).
Down Survey Website
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Information from Google Maps.
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Information from the National Monuments Service.
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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service

Neighbouring Townlands

List of townlands that share a border with this townland:
This is a list of townlands that share a border with this townland.

Population and Census Information

People who lived here:
You can retrieve a list of people who lived in this townland from 1827 to 1911. This list is compiled from the following resources.
  • The Tithe Applotment Books
  • Griffith's Valuation
  • 1901 Census
  • 1911 Census
List of nineteenth century and early twentieth century inhabitants of this townland.
Church records of births, deaths and marriages:
Church records of births, deaths and marriages are available online at http://www.rootsireland.ie. To search these records you will need to know the 'church parish' rather than the 'civil parish'. (The civil parish is the pre-reformation parish and was frequently used as a unit of administration in the past.)
Booly [Booly changed to Boley] is in the civil parish of Lickmolassy.
Roman Catholic parishes:
This civil parish corresponds with the following Roman Catholic parish or parishes.
  • Kilmalinoge and Lickmolassy (Portumna)
Church of Ireland parishes:
This civil parish corresponds with the following Church of Ireland parish.
  • Lickmolassy
In general, the civil parish and the Church of Ireland parish are the same, but, this is not always the case.

Other Sources

Information from the Logainm database.
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