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Aughanduff () is a small hamlet and townland in the Parish of Forkhill, Barony of Upper Orior, and County of Armagh, Northern Ireland. The townland is roughly co-existent with Upper and Lower Aughanduff Mountains, both of which form part of the Ring of Gullion geological formation, which has been described as the most spectacular example of a ring-dyke intrusion in the British Isles, and was the first ring dyke in the world to be geologically mapped.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Northern Ireland Environment Agency Website )〕 Aughanduff has been populated since prehistoric times and has been recorded as a distinct district since at least the early 1600s.〔See the Escheated map of County Armagh: Orior 1609 - ''Map of 'The Barony of Orier', showing bog and woodland, and castles, churches, houses and mountains in perspective'', available at (UK National Archives ), Kew.〕 The area's history is both well documented and reflects its location both in rural Ireland and on the borderlands of the Pale, the Plantation of Ulster, and latterly Northern Ireland; indeed, part of the district's northern boundary was proposed for form part of the northern border of the Irish Free State by the Irish Boundary Commission in its final report of 1925.〔See Report of the Boundary Commission, 1925, Irish Boundary Commission p.104. Available at ''Irish Boundary Commission (Feetham Commission): Records'', (UK National Archives website )〕 The Boundary Commission's report was never implemented and today, the area remains within Northern Ireland, some five miles from the border with the Republic of Ireland. Part of the area has been designated by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency as an Area of Special Scientific Interest, and the district lies within the Ring of Gullion Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Northern Ireland Environment Agency Website )〕 ==Etymology== "Aughanduff" (also spelt "Annduff") is commonly said to derive from the Irish ''Áth an Daimh'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Northern Ireland Place-Name Project )〕 meaning "ford of the oxen" (or "oxford"), with the relevant ford being one across Balina stream which separates the townland from neighbouring Carricknagavina.〔McKay, P.: ''Bailte Fearainn Ard Mhacha Theas: The townlands of South Armagh'' (2006) Newry and Mourne Council, p.5〕 It has also been argued, however, that the name comes from the Irish ''Achadh Dubh'' meaning "black fields".〔Mac Aodha, B.: Some aspects of the toponymy of the Aughanduff-Slieve Gullion area in South Armagh in ''Ainm'' (1998), Vol 8, pp. 93–101.〕 The spelling used for official purposes is Aughanduff,〔See, for example, ''Belfast Gazette'', March 2, 1973, p.1〕 and the area is commonly pronounced ''Ann-duff''. The modern English spelling ''Aughanduff'' appears to have emerged during the 18th century, and the Northern Ireland Place-Names Project〔 records the following spellings being used in official documents or maps prior to ''Aughanduff'' being used in John Rocque's 1760 Map of County Armagh: *''Aghadampe'' - Esch. Co. Map, 5.26, 1609 (Escheated map of County Armagh: Orior);〔 *''Aghadamph'' - CPR Jas I, 187a, 1611 (Irish patent rolls of King James I);〔See Great Britain Commissioners of the Public Records of Ireland. Forward by M.C. Griffith. ''Irish Patent Rolls of James I. Dublin Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts commission'', 1966.〕 *''Aghaduffe the backside of'' - Civ. Surv., x $77, 1655c (the Civil or "Down" Survey); *''Aghadiffe'' - Inq. Arm. (Paterson), 228, 1657(Inquisition as to parishes in County Armagh in 1657);〔See Paterson, T. G. F.: "Inquisition as to parishes in County Armagh in 1657" in the ''Ulster journal of archaeology'' (1939), Ser. 3, Vol. II, pp. 212-249.〕 *''Aghaduff'' - Inq. Arm. (Paterson), 225, 1657;〔 *''Aghadu'' - Hib. Reg., Oryer, 1657c (''Hibernia Regnum'' or ''the Down Survey of the Baronies of Ireland, 1655-58'', Map of The Barony of Oryer in the County of Ardmagh (2 sheets));〔For more information, see (【引用サイトリンク】 work=Special Collections - Maps )〕 *''Aghaduffe'' - BSD, 3, 1661 (the Books of Survey and Distribution); *''Aghaduffe'' - HMR Murray (1941), 131, 1664 (the Hearth Money Rolls 1664);〔See Murray, L.P.: "The County Armagh Hearth Money Rolls, A.D. 1664" in ''Archivium Hibernicum''(1941), Vol.8, pp.121-202.〕 *''Agheduffe'' - HMR Orior, 426, 1664 (the Hearth Money Rolls of Orior, 1664); *''Aghneduffe'' or ''Aughinduffe'' - ASE, 107 b 7, 1666 (the Acts of Settlement and Explanation); and *''Aghaduffe'' - Hib. Del., 28, 1672c (Sir William Petty's ''Hiberniae Delineatio'' or ''Petty's Atlas''. Based on the Down Survey).〔This was the first printed atlas of Ireland, and contained a map of Ireland, maps of the provinces, and maps of the counties for more information, see(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Clare County Library )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aughanduff」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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