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St. Mullin's Lower
St. Mullin's Lower () is a Barony (Ireland), barony in County Carlow, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Etymology St. Mullin's Lower barony takes its name from the village of St. Mullin's (). Location St. Mullin's Lower is found in south County Carlow, east of the River Barrow and west of the Blackstairs Mountains. St. Mullin's Lower barony is bordered to the north by Idrone East, County Carlow; to the east and south by Bantry (barony), Bantry, County Wexford; to the southwest by Ida (barony), Ida, County Kilkenny; and to the west by Gowran (barony), Gowran, County Kilkenny. History The ancient land of the Ui Drona was cantered here in the 8th century.http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/parish.htm List of settlements Below is a list of settlements in St. Mullin's Lower: *Ballymurphy, County Carlow, Ballymurphy *Graiguenamanagh (southern part) References {{County Carlow Baronies of County Carlow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was the population's first language until the 19th century, when English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century. Irish is still spoken as a first language in a small number of areas of certain counties such as Cork, Donegal, Galway, and Kerry, as well as smaller areas of counties Mayo, Meath, and Waterford. It is also spoken by a larger group of habitual but non-traditional speakers, mostly in urban areas where the majority are second-language speakers. Daily users in Ireland outside the education system number around 73,000 (1.5%), and the total number of persons (aged 3 and over) who claimed they could speak Irish in April 2016 was 1,761,420, representing 39.8% of respondents. For most of recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
