People and Places of Galway

Standard Name:

Isserkelly North

Irish Form of Name:

Díseart Cheallaigh, Ceallach's Desert or wilderness

Translation:

Ceallach's Desert or wilderness

Civil Parish:

Isertkelly
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Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:

Isserkelly North
Díseart Cheallaigh
Isserkelly North Boundary Sketch
Iskerkelly Co. Record Book
Issertkelly Grand Jury Presentments
Iserkelly Inq. Temp. Car. I
Isserkelly Inq. Temp. Car. II
Isertkelly Inq. Temp. Eliz.
Iskerkelly Inq. Temp.Gal. III
Isserkelly North Larkin's Co. Map
Issertkelly North Mr. Thomas Bourke

Description:

This is a large and irregularly formed townland nearly all arable. It contains 2 Danish Forts, and 2 Ponds, and the ruins of an old church to which a grave yard is attached.Proprietor R. Piersse of Castlefoy, rents per acre £1.0.0. County cess 1s 2d per acre.

Situation:

In the Western part of the parish, Barony of Loughrea, and is bounded by the townlands of Killeenpatrick, Ballanla, Terrypark, Castlepark and Meherans park, in this parish, by Ballyshea, and Poulnasunnagh in that of Killinan, by Ballanrasaun, Grasna, M [unable to read] East, and Fiddaun in that of Ardrahan and Lissnaglaugh and Loughburke in that of Killinan.

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:

Isserkelly North is a townland.

Original OS maps at the Ordnance Survey of Ireland website.
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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.

Having followed this link, you will see several expandable links - each link has a plus sign on its left - on the top left of the page. Expand 'Base Information and Mapping'. Now it is possible to select the maps that you wish to view by clicking on the checkbox that is on the left of each map; this list includes the original Ordnance Survey maps.

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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Isserkelly North

Information from the National Monuments Service.
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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service

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.)

Isserkelly North is in the civil parish of Isertkelly.

Roman Catholic parishes:

This civil parish corresponds with the following Roman Catholic parish or parishes.

Church of Ireland parishes:

This civil parish corresponds with the following Church of Ireland parish.

Isertkelly

In general, the civil parish and the Church of Ireland parish are the same, but, this is not always the case.

Information about Isserkelly North

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Townland Information

Information From Maps

Population and Census Information