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County Wexford was the bridgehead in the Anglo-Norman conquest of Ireland at the end of the twelfth century, and the county was heavily colonised. The Anglo-Normans regularly used the Old English word tūn, later ‘town’ when coining new placenames, and combined it with an Anglo-Norman personal name or a surname (of English or French origin). At the end of the fifteenth century, the Irish repossessed the north of the county. In the process of gaelicisation, the Anglo-Norman element ‘town’ was translated to baile in Irish, and baile is found in historical records in the transliterated forms bally- or balli in English. In this paper, the lasting influence of the Anglo-Norman conquest on the toponymic landscape in County Wexford will be demonstrated by exploring Anglo-Norman placenames that contain the element bally-/balli- or town and their distribution throughout the county.| Period | 13 Apr 2023 |
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| Event title | Borderlines XXV |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Belfast, United KingdomShow on map |
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Canúint na Gaeilge i nDeisceart Laighean: an fhianaise ainmeolaíochta [The dialect of Irish in South Leinster: the onomastic evidence]
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy