Annabella, County Cork
Annabella | |
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Townland | |
  Annabella Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°08′28″N 08°39′56″W / 52.14111°N 8.66556°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Cork |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Area code | 022 |
Annabella is a townland near Mallow, County Cork in Ireland.[1][2] Some sources give the townland's Irish name as Eanach-bile, and translate it as "marsh of the sacred tree [bile]".[3] Other sources dispute this derivation as a back-formed neologism.[N 1] Mallow railway station (built c.1845) lies within Annabella townland.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Annabella". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
- ^ The Genealogical magazine; Part 3 of Genealogical journals and periodicals; Part 3 of Rare printed sources for genealogical research. New York Public Library: Elliot Stock. 1900. p. 372.
- ^ Joyce, Patrick (1902). "Annabella". Irish Local Names Explained.
- ^ "Mallow Railway Station, Annabella, Mallow, County Cork". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
Notes[edit]
- ^ Regarding the eanach-bile (marsh of the sacred tree) derivation advanced by P.W. Joyce or indeed the áth an bhile (ford of the sacred tree) proffered by Eugene O Curry in the Ordnance Survey Namebook (1840), both are incorrect. O Curry's colleague, Dr. John O Donovan, was correct in his assertion 'I think that this is a fancy name' (Ordnance Survey Namebook). It may have derived from a one-time female resident of Annabella House, now demolished. Details of the house and demesne are given in Houses Of Cork, Vol.1-North, p.29 (Anna-Maria Hajba) where she cites Joyce's derivation of eanach bile. Early name-forms include: Annabelle(1719), Annabel(1721), Anabel(1750), Annable(1776) and thereafter Annabelle (1811, 1830, 1837 and 1840). Correspondence from Pádraig Ó Dálaigh, Higher Placenames Officer to Steven Driskell. 2011-02-10.
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