Old Place names

Hi Michael

 

Any old place names for Patrickswell or Lough Gur?

 

Aine

 

One of the commonest names used in Irish was baile (plural bailte); a general term for "homestead" or "settlement". The modern official term for townland in Irish is baile fearainn (plural bailte fearainn). The term fearann means "land, territory, quarter".

Baile is usually anglicised as bally (such as Ballydaly) and Fearann as farran (now unused“Farrangoosey & Farrancaslan” which were further areas mentioned in Aney parish during the Cromwellian  Settlement of Country Limerick in the latter half of the 17th century. Another modern day example would be Farranfore in Kerry).

I assume Farrangoosey  was an area of enclosure for fowl in the village and Farrancaslan was  an area of enclosure around the present castle. 

Any thoughts?

My grandparents came from a townland near Sneem. I have found many spellings in old records and only have the memory of my grandmother's pronunciation so I have no idea how it was spelled. It seems to be out of use because I haven't found it on any current list of townlands. It was a little to the northeast of Sneem and probably near a stream because my grandmother said the name meant "red water". The way it is listed on baptismal records around 1900 is Aureagh. Is anyone familiar with this?

 

Thanks, Johanna