Abbreviations
compiled by Ailbhe MacShamhráin and Marie Fingleton
General
- adj
- adjacent
- app.
- appendix
- appt
- appointed
- Arbp
- Archbishop
- Arch Ire
- Archaeology Ireland
- archae
- archaeological
- ascr
- ascribed
- assoc
- associated with
- att
- attended
- bar/bars
- barony/baronies
- bdr/bdrs
- border/borders
- bldg
- building
- bnd
- burned
- bndry/bndries
- boundary/boundaries
- Bp/bp
- Bishop
- br/s
- brother/s
- brz
- bronze
- BVM
- Blessed Virgin Mary
- C
- century
- C of I
- Church of Ireland
- c.
- circa: about/approximately (in relation to date)
- capt
- captured
- cf
- compare
- ch
- church
- Chart
- Charter
- Chtr
- Charter
- chyd
- churchyard
- circ
- circular
- cl.
- class
- CLAHJ
- County Louth Archaeological & Historical Journal
- classif/unclassif
- classified/unclassified
- commem
- commemorated/commeration
- consecr
- consecrated
- d.
- died
- d/ds of
- daughter/s of
- DCHS
- Down and Connor Historical Society
- dec
- decorated
- ded/dedic
- dedicated/dedication
- def
- defined
- demol
- demolished
- desc
- descended, descendant
- diam
- diameter
- DIAS
- Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
- DIB
- Dictionary of Irish Biography
- dioc
- diocese
- discip
- disciple
- DMC
- Dál Messin Corb
- dnry
- deanery
- doc(s)
- document(s)
- EC
- Early Christian
- eccl
- ecclesiastical
- ed
- edited by/edition
- EI Ch
- Early Irish Church
- encl
- enclosure
- enshr
- enshrined
- et al
- et alia: and others
- exch
- exchange
- ext
- extending/extended
- ff
- following
- fl
- floruit: flourished
- fnd
- founded
- fndt
- foundation
- frag
- fragment
- gd
- ground
- GJP
- Grand Jury Presentations
- gtd
- granted
- gvyd
- graveyard
- HMNI
- Historical Monuments of Northern Ireland 1983
- hses bnd
- houses burned
- idem
- the same person (author)
- ident
- identical to
- identif
- identified/identification
- illeg
- illegible
- indic
- indication
- infl
- influence
- Inq
- Inquisition (jury inquiry into estates of deceased person, or one convicted of plotting against English Crown)
- inscr/uninscr
- inscribed/uninscribed
- Isd
- Island
- JACAS
- Journal of the Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Archaeological Society
- JCHAS
- Journal of the Cork Archaeological & Historical Society
- JGAHS
- Journal of the Galway Archaeological & Historical Society
- JKAHS
- Journal of the Kerry Archaeological & Historical Society
- JRSAI
- Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
- jt/jtly
- joint/jointly
- k.o.
- king of
- Kts
- Knights
- kwn/unknwn
- known/unknown
- lge
- large
- loc
- located/location
- lrg
- large
- lwr
- lower
- marg. infr.
- in the margin below
- med
- medieval
- mem
- memorial
- ment
- mentioned
- mispl
- misplaces/misplaced
- mkd/unmkd
- marked/unmarked
- mod
- modern
- mon
- monastery
- MS/MSS
- manuscript(s)
- nd
- no date
- nec
- necessary/necessarily
- NMAJ
- North Munster Antiquarian Journal
- NMI
- National Museum of Ireland
- no.(s)
- number(s)
- nr
- near
- nrby
- nearby
- oblit
- obliterated
- occ
- occupied
- opp
- opposite
- orig
- originally
- OS
- Ordnance Survey
- OSL
- Ordnance Survey Letters
- OSNB
- Ordnance Survey Name Book
- par
- parish
- Parl Gaz Ire
- Parliamentary Gazeteer of Ireland
- passim
- throughout (a publication)
- perh
- perhaps
- pl
- plundered
- plname
- placename
- poss
- possible/possibly
- possess
- possession/s
- ppty
- property
- pref
- preferable
- PRIA
- Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy
- pts
- parts
- quadrang
- quadrangular
- qv
- quod vide: which see
- rd twr
- round tower
- rec
- recorded
- rect
- rectangular
- recvd
- received
- ref
- reference
- refl
- reflect
- reg/irreg
- regular/irregular
- rept(d)
- report(ed)
- Rev.Celt
- Revue Celtique
- RIA
- Royal Irish Academy
- s./ss. of
- son of/sons of
- s.a.
- sub anno (under the year of)
- sch
- school
- sic
- thus
- sl.
- slain
- sm
- small
- SMR
- Sites & Monuments Record
- sr/srs
- sister/sisters
- St
- saint
- sth(n)
- south(ern)
- str
- structure
- sub-circ
- sub-circular
- subj
- subject
- subsid
- subsidiary
- surr
- surrounded
- surrdg
- surrounding
- surrend
- surrendered
- T
- town
- TCD
- Trinity College Dublin
- tld
- townland
- topog
- topography
- trad
- tradition
- UJA
- Ulster Journal of Archaeology
- uncert
- uncertain
- undoc
- undocumented
- upr
- upper
- viv
- vivens (alive - see also floriut)
- WAJ
- Journal of the Waterford Archaeological Soc
Sources
- Alen('s) Reg
- Register of Archbishop Alen (Calendar of)
- Ann.Clon
- Annals of Clonmacnoise
- Ann.Conn
- Annals of Connacht
- Ann.FM
- Annals of the Four Masters
- Ann.Inisf
- Annals of Inisfallen
- Ann.LC
- Annals of Loch Cé
- Ann.Rosc
- Annals of Roscommon
- Ann.Tig
- Annals of Tigernach
- Ann.Ult
- Annals of Ulster
- Aug Canons Reg
- Augustinian Canons Regular
- Baltinglass Chtr
- Foundation Charter of Baltinglass Abbey
- BB
- Book of Balymote
- BCC
- Betha Colaim Chille (The Irish Life of Colum Cille)
- BCL
- The Irish Life of Colmán of Lann/Lynn
- Bede, Hist.Eccl
- Bede the Venerable, Historia Ecclesiae
- Betha Adamnáin
- The Irish Life of Adamnáin
- Betha Barra
- The Irish Life of Barra (Finbarr of Cork)
- Betha Lasrach
- The Irish Life of Lasair
- Betha Meic-Creiche
- The Life of Mac-Creiche
- Bethu Brigte
- The Irish Life of Brigit
- Bk.Arm
- Book of Armagh
- Bk.Fenagh
- Book of Fenagh
- Bk.Fermoy
- Book of Fermoy
- Bk.Survey & Distr
- Book of Survey & Distribution
- Bk.Uí Maine
- Book of Uí Maine
- Black.Bk.Limerick
- Black Book of Limerick
- BNE
- Bethada Nóem nÉrenn (Irish Lives of the Saints)
- Boll, Acta
- Bollandist Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae
- Brady's Episc. Succ
- Brady's Episcopal Succession
- Cáin Éimíne Báin
- The Law of Éimíne Bán
- Cal.Chr.ch.ds
- Calendar of Christ Church Deeds
- Cal.Doc.Ire
- Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland
- Cal.Inq
- Calendar of Inquisitions
- Cal.Just.Rolls
- Calendar of Justiciary Rolls
- Cal.Orm.ds
- Cal.Pap.Reg
- Calendar of Papal Registers
- Cal.Pat.Rolls
- Calendar of Patent Rolls
- Cal.St.pap
- Calendar State Papers
- CGG
- Cogad Gáedil Re Gallib
- CGSH
- Corpus Genealogiarum Sanctorum Hiberniae
- Chart.SM
- Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey
- Chron.Scot
- Chronicon Scotorum
- Civil Survey
- Civil Survey of Ireland, 1654
- Colgan, Acta
- Colgan, Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae
- Colgan, Triadis
- Colgan, Triadis Thaumathurga
- Collect.Can.Hib
- Collectio Canonum Hibernensis
- Colton Visitation
- Visitation of John Colton, Archbishop of Armagh
- Corp.Gen
- Corpus Genealogiarum Hiberniae
- Cr.Mihi
- Crede Mihi (Dublin Diocesan Register, c.1280)
- Cummian's Letter
- Letter of Cummian to Pope, 633
- De Episcopis
- De Episcopis (concerning bishops) - tract in Book of Leinster (LL 372)
- Exch.Inq
- Exchequer Inquisition
- Fir
- Genealogies of Mac Fir-bisigh
- Frag.Ann
- Fragmentary Annals of Ireland
- Gen.Corco Loígde
- Genealogia Corco Loígde
- Gen.Reg.SS.Hib
- Genealogiae Regum et Sanctorum Hiberniae
- Grace's.Ann
- Grace's Annals (Chronicle of Flattisbury)
- Hib.Delineatio
- Hiberniae Delineatio
- Hist.Municip.Doc.
- Historical Municipal Documents
- Ir Nennius
- Nennius, Historia Britonum
- Keating
- Geoffrey Keating, Foras Feasa ar Éirinn
- Kells Chtrs
- Charters in the Book of Kells (Notitiae as Leabhar Cheannanais)
- L na Scol
- Lámhscríbhíní na Scol (Schools Manuscripts of Irish Folklore Commission)
- L.Bran
- Leabar Branach
- Laud 610
- Bodleian MS Laud 610
- LB
- Leabar Brecc
- Lec
- Book of Lecan
- Letter of Honorius III
- Papal Letter of Honorius III, 1222 (see Cal.Pap.Let)
- Letter of Innocent III
- Papal Letter of Innocent III, 1199 (see Cal.Pap.Let)
- Lex.Innoc
- Lex Innocentium - Adamnán's Law of the Innocents (also known as Cáin Adamnáin)
- Lhanthony Cart.
- Irish Cartularies of Lhanthony Prima et Secunda
- Lib.Hymn
- Liber Hymnorum
- Lib.Nig
- Liber Niger
- Lis
- Book of Lismore
- Lit of Ir saints
- Litany of Irish Saints
- LL
- Lebar Laigen/na Núachongbála - Book of Leinster
- LU
- Lebar na hUidre
- MacEochagáin 1638
- Diocesan Visitation of Bishop MacEochagáin of Kildare
- Mart.Chr.Ch
- Martyrology of Christchurch
- Mart.D
- Martyrology of Donegal
- Mart.G
- Martyrology of Ua Gormáin
- Mart.O
- Martyrology of Óengus
- Mart.T
- Martyrology of Tallaght
- Misc.Ann
- Miscellaneous Annals
- Papal Annates
- Papal Annates 1414, 1426, 1433, 1479 (see Cal.Pap.Reg)
- Pontif.Hib.
- Pontificia Hiberniae
- Rawl B 502
- Oxford MS Rawlinson B 502
- Red.Bk.Orm
- Red Book of Ormond
- Red.Bk.Ossory
- Red Book of Ossory
- Reg.AH
- Register of All Hallows (Registrum Prioratus Omnium Sanctorum Iuxta Dublin)
- Reg.Clon
- Register of Clonmacnoise
- Reg.Dowdall
- Register of Archbishop Dowdall
- Reg.Fleming
- Register of Archbishop Fleming
- Reg.Gorm
- Register of Gormanstown Abbey
- Reg.Kilmainham
- Register of Kilmainham
- Reg.Mey
- Register of Archbishop Mey
- Reg.Muck
- Register of Muckamore
- Reg.St.John
- Register of the Abbey of St. John
- Reg.St.Thos
- Register of the Abbey of Saint Thomas
- Reg.Sweteman
- Register of Archbishop Sweteman
- Reg.Trist
- Register of Tristernagh Abbey
- Rep.Vir
- Reportorium Viride of Archbishop Alen 1533
- Roy.Visit.Pprs
- Royal Visitation Papers
- Stowe MSS (RIA)
- Stowe Manuscripts (Royal Irish Academy)
- Tax
- Papal Taxation 1302–06
- Tintern Chtr
- Tintern Charter 1245 (see Hore 1865)
- Tor
- Cathréim Toirdelbaig
- Trip.Life
- Tripartite Life of St. Patrick - Vita Tripartita Sancti Patricii
- Vita I Brigit
- Vita Prima Sanctae Brigitae - The 'First' Latin Life of St Brigit
- Vita S Brigitae
- Vita Sanctae Brigitae - Latin Life of St Brigit by Cogitosus
- Vita S Mo-Nenna
- Vita Sanctae Mo-Nenna - Latin Life of St Mo-Nenna of Killevy
- Vita S. Ronani
- Vita Sancti Ronani - Latin Life of St Rónán
- Vita S. Secundini
- Vita Sancti Secundini - Latin Life of St Secundinus of Dunshaughlin
- VSC
- Vita Sancti Columbae - latin Life of St Columba by Adamnán
- VSH
- Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae - Latin Lives of the Irish Saints
- VSH Salm
- Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae ex Codice Salmanticensis - Latin Lives of the Irish Saints from the Salamanca Codex
- YBL
- Yellow Book of Lecan (Leabar Buide Lecain)