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The following appear as names for County Down. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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DOWN | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
Samuel Lewis | A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London: S. LEWIS & Co., 1837). | |
Arthur Young | A Tour in Ireland, made in the years 1776, 1777, and 1778 (London: T. Cadell, 1780). | |
DOWNE | Arthur Young | A Tour in Ireland, made in the years 1776, 1777, and 1778 (London: T. Cadell, 1780). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with County Down. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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CO DOWN | Constituency (PCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
Irish County | National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Place Names | |
COUNTY DOWN | Irish County | National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Place Names |
DOWN | Constituency (PCon) | F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 (Glasgow: Political Reference Publications, 1969) |
District/Unitary Authority | Census of Population (Northern Ireland Census 2011 Key Statistics) | |
Irish County | National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Place Names | |
DOWN NORTH | Constituency (CCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
DOWN SOUTH | Constituency (CCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
NORTH DOWN | Constituency (CCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
District/Unitary Authority | Census of Population (Northern Ireland Census 2011 Key Statistics) | |
SOUTH DOWN | Constituency (CCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with County Down, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of County Down, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of County Down | Place names for the county, A Vision of Ireland through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofireland.org/place/20033/names
Date accessed: 02nd May 2024