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Ballymachugh Down Survey Map

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The Down Survey was done by Sir William Petty in the middle of the 17th century. The map below represents a tracing said to be made from one of his some 2,000 parish maps. The tracings appear to be held in PRONI but the drawing below mas made from a microfilm photostat made at the County Cavan Library.

 

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Townland Names compared with those reported in Goblet, Y. M., ed. A Topographical Index of the Parishes and Townlands of Ireland in Sir William Petty's Mss. Barony Maps (c. 1655-9) and Hiberniae Delineatio (c.1672), Dublin: 1932
Map ReferenceDown Survey TracingBibliothèque Nationale (Barony Maps)Hiberniae Delineatio
b.bog  
1.AgheekillmoreAgheekillmoreAghekillmore
2.The Gallon of TawlaghtTawloght GallonTowlot Gallon
3.Tawlagh PoleTawlaght PoleTawlatpoll
4.MoydristonMoydristonMoydriston
5.AghecreevyAghecreevyAhacrevvy
6.Ballimachugh  
7.LawaghLawaghLawagh
8.CorcloghanCorcloghan 
9.LisduffeLisdufeLisduffe
c.A Comon belonging to adjacent Towns  
10.ThureenThureeneThureen
11.CorfarnegoCorfarnegoCorsarneg
12.CrowooarCrowaarCrova