Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Slieve Burke
Sliabh Burcaigh
Slieve Bourke
Sliabh Bourke
Slieve Bourke By. Surveyors Sketch Map
Slieve Bourke C. C. Collector
Slieve Bourke or Local
Slieve Bourke Meresman
Slieve Bourke Rental
Slieve Bourke Rev. Peter Fitzmorris, P.P.
Description:
Proprietor Agustus John O’Neil, Esq. late Lieut. 13th light Dragoons. Agent John R. Birwick, Esq., Ballinahinch or Dublin. £5 per year Bulked Rent. No lease. Soil part shaking bog and part firm bog interspersed with rocks, but very bad pasture of its sort and no Co. Cess. It is attached to Ballyconneely. A hut with about an acre mixed arable and reclaimed bog annexed to the hut. Not paying rent. This hut and garden taken up without any authority without hindrance. Shows this place is of a poor bad quality and not worth looking to. Shannalecka Lake, Bool-ther-graun Lake, Oweng-weelra Lake. Ah-woolla-ee-yonil Lake, Oweng-a-worieeen Lake, Lough-augh, Owen na colligee, Lough Bauran-na-ree- thaun-waun, Lough a wadtha, Lough Thully na-blawhee runs into Murvy River, it also sends a stream from S. end to Lough Eklakeera thence to Lough-na- monuv and thence through Emloughmore Bridge or calla. Do. Runs to the sea. Lough scalp-na-gan runs into Lough thulla-na-Blawee, Lough-a-chlougher near to and West the latter, Lough-baur-owna N.W. of latter, Lough-na-noon falls into Thulligh-na-Blawee river. Lough Cnoohoor, Lough-na-spirroga in mere of Murvy, Lough dharrug in mere of Murvy N.E. townland, Lough na Boola-ard meres Murvy in S.E. part of T.ld., Lough –na- soomurree, E. of latter meres Murvy, Lough bloomaun-more, Lough Thulligh- Cloomaun beg in By., Lough annanee N?elim Erris By.
Situation:
In the E. side of the parish bounded on the North by the parish of Moyrus and townland Beaghcauneen, West by Derrygrimlagh and Boolagair, South by townland Emlaghmoore and the parish of Moyrus and on the E. by the parish of Moyrus. In the Barony of Ballinahinch and County of Galway.