Chevy Chase, Ireland
We’ve been tweeting unusual townland names as we encounter them around Ireland in the course of assessing projects, and for today we present the unusually named Chevy Chase, Co. Offaly, located to the northeast of Portalington.
Here’s the historic map with Chevy Chase House depicted in the top left…
This entry was posted on Thursday, May 20th, 2010 at 4:19 pm. It is filed under History and tagged with Chevy Chase, Ireland, Townland Names.
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Any connection to the Earls of Northumberland around there?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad_of_Chevy_Chase
Unknown… But I did locate another Chevy Chase house near Gort, this one owned by the Persse family of Galway Whiskey fame! http://short.ie/r8mypr