Information about Booleynabrone

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Standard Name:
Booleynabrone
Irish Form of Name:
Buaile na Bron
Translation:
dairy of the quern
Civil Parish:
Ballinakill in Leitrim Barony
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Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Booleynabrone
Buaile na Bron
Bullinabrown
Boolnabrone
Bullinabrown Hyacinth Clarke, Esq.
Bullinabrown Mr. O’Callaghan
Bullinabrown Sir John Burke
Bullinabrown The inhabitants
Description:
A district of the townland so called (composed of bog and arable with a few houses) but does not represent any matter worthy of remark.
Situation:
In the North end of the townland of Derrygolan South about 4 miles S. S. West of Woodford.

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.

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:
Booleynabrone is in Derrygolan South townland.

Information From Maps

Original OS maps at the Ordnance Survey of Ireland website.
(Click on place name to view original map in new window.)
This link is not a link to the townland that you are currently researching; however, if you follow this link, you will see a search box near the top of the page which you can use to search for your townland.
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You can select more than one map and you can use a slider to make one map more transparent than another. This allows you to view what features were present or absent at different points in time.
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Booleynabrone
Information from the National Monuments Service.
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You can use this link to view a map of archaelogical features.
This link brings you to a website wherein you will have to search for your townland.
Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service
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