Standard Name:
Ballymaquiff
Irish Form of Name:
Baile Mac Coif
Translation:
Mac Quiffs Town
Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Ballymaquiff
Baile Mac Coif
Baile Mac Coif
Ballymaquiv North Boundary Surveyors Sketch Map
Ballymaquive Engraved County Map
Ballimcquiffe Inq. Temp. Jac. I
Ballymaquiffe North Mr. Gregory’s Clerk, P. Burk
Ballymaquiffe Printed Townland List
Ballamaquiff Rev. George Dwyer, Rector
Ballamaquiff North Rev. P. B. Quin, P.P.
Ballymaquiffe North Tithe Composition Book
Description:
Proprietor Richard Gregory, Esq., 56 Berner’s Street, Oxford Road, London. Agent Edmund L. Hunt, Esq., Gort. Let to 5 occupying tenants on a lease of 31 years at 2s. 5d. per acre yearly rent. County Cess 2s. 11½d. Tithes withheld by the tenantry. Size of farms from 10 to 23 acres. Soil part rocky and part gravely. Usual crops wheat, oats, barley and potatoes. No bog. Prevailing names Fury. Rruins of an old castle in this townland and two forts. Authority Mr. Lynskey, Bailiff to Mr. Gregory.
Situation:
In the South West of the parish of Ardrahan, Barony of Dunkellin and County Galway. East of the old Mail Coach Road from Gort to Galway. South of a road leading to Rabane Roman Catholic Chapel, and West of another road leading from Gort to Ardrahan.
Information from the Ordnance Survey Letters:
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References to this place can be found in the following letter.
Area in Acres, Roods and Perches:
Land value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
Building value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
Total value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
Heads of housholds living in the townland at this time:
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