Sheepland Beg
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Ir. An Seipéilín Beag ‘the little chapel or church’ (lesser)
Discussion
Sheepland Beg and Sheepland More are recorded as Shefflondebegg and Cheapollanmore in 1549. In the form Shefflondebegg, -ff- is clearly an error for –pp- and the English element Sheepland is obviously a corruption of the Irish word seipéilín ‘little chapel or church’. Writing in 1878 O’Laverty (i 179) informs us that in the townland of Sheepland More there is ‘a hill named Mullaghban (‘the white hill’) which is said to be so named from white friars who had at that place a monastery. There have been found in the vicinity of Mullaghban graves lined with stones, and cairns of stones’. On the northern boundary of Sheepland Beg there is a hamlet named Chapeltown. The townland of Sheepland More also contains a holy well known as ‘Saint Patrick’s Well’ while in Sheepland Beg there is a natural rock cleft known as ‘Saint Patrick’s Road’.
Discussion
Sheepland Beg and Sheepland More are recorded as Shefflondebegg and Cheapollanmore in 1549. In the form Shefflondebegg, -ff- is clearly an error for –pp- and the English element Sheepland is obviously a corruption of the Irish word seipéilín ‘little chapel or church’. Writing in 1878 O’Laverty (i 179) informs us that in the townland of Sheepland More there is ‘a hill named Mullaghban (‘the white hill’) which is said to be so named from white friars who had at that place a monastery. There have been found in the vicinity of Mullaghban graves lined with stones, and cairns of stones’. On the northern boundary of Sheepland Beg there is a hamlet named Chapeltown. The townland of Sheepland More also contains a holy well known as ‘Saint Patrick’s Well’ while in Sheepland Beg there is a natural rock cleft known as ‘Saint Patrick’s Road’.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 54°16'32"N 5°34'57"W
- Crossgar/Upper Crossgare 31 km
- Clontonakelly 36 km
- Clare 53 km
- Bleary 54 km
- Deer Park Farms 80 km
- Kilskyre 114 km
- Lisdillon 134 km
- Taghmon 135 km
- Rattin 140 km
- Lemanaghan 180 km
- Former RAF Bishops Court 3.6 km
- Lecale Peninsula 7 km
- Tullycarnan 10 km
- The Hunsdon (Wreck) 10 km
- Strangford Lough 22 km
- County Down 23 km
- Kircubbin 24 km
- Mahee Island 25 km
- Former RAF Ballyhalbert 25 km
- Ards Penninsula 26 km
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