Owning, County Kilkenny : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Owning. You may be able to find further references to Owning in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Owning (or Beaulieu) parish Bartholomew
OWNING, or BEAULIEU, also called BEWLEY a parish Lewis:Ireland

Travel writing

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Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Owning. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
BEAULIEU John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London: S. LEWIS & Co., 1837).
BEWLEY Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London: S. LEWIS & Co., 1837).
OWNING John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London: S. LEWIS & Co., 1837).
OWNING OR BEAULIEU John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
OWNING OR BEAULIEU ALSO CALLED BEWLEY Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London: S. LEWIS & Co., 1837).

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