Meaning of ballybetagh | Babel Free

Definitions

A division of land in Ireland equal to 480 Irish acres (approximately 315 hectares or 778 statute acres) of arable land.

historical

Examples

“In many instances the ancient names of the ballybetaghs are lost, and the names of their subdivisions only are retained as townland names; but in some instances the name of the ballybetagh remains, although it is not applied to as large [an area].”

“To the former was assigned five ballybetaghs in demesne, and to the freeholders under him eleven ballybetaghs and a half; to the latter two ballybetaghs and a half, and to freeholders under him two other ballybetaghs and a half.”

“Besides these food rents (from the Mensal lands), Maguire had about 240 beeves yearly paid unto him out of the seven baronies, and about his castle at Enniskillen he had about a half ballybetagh, which he manured (tilled) […]”

“In late medieval Gaelic Monaghan, the ballybetaghs with their intricate tate subsections, were combined into parishes, indicating a link between secular and ecclesiastical territorial order that was universal throughout Christian Europe.”

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