Information about Beagh River

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Standard Name:
Beagh River
Irish Form of Name:
Translation:
Civil Parish:
Beagh
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Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Beagh River Patrick Douglas
Description:
This river rises at Lough Cooter and sinks in the ground a short distance East of a place called the Punch Bowl it runs under ground and passes through the Punch Bowl; alternatively sinking and breaking out at different places.(The Punch Bowl is a Circular Pool of water circumference at the top 572 feet, from the surface of the ground at top, to the water below in the Bowl, 861/2 feet, depth of water in the Bowl 22 feet. The [Unable to read.] in the inside of the Bowl is almost overgrown with trees of various [Unable to read.] the water in it appears stagnant, but doubtless the Beagh River which sinks a little to the East of it passes this it in cavities under ground).Trout, perch and eel in the river.
Situation:
On the north boundary townland Beagh and Parish Beagh and South boundary townland Carragh in the Parish Kilbeakanty all in the Barony of Kiltartan and County Galway.

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:
Beagh River is in Beagh townland.

Information From Maps

Original OS maps at the Ordnance Survey of Ireland website.
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Beagh River
Information from the National Monuments Service.
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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service
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