Shelmalier or Shelmaliere (Irish: Síol Maoluír, from Old Irish Síl Máel Uidir, "Offspring of Maeleer") is a region in County Wexford, Ireland.[1][2] It comprises two historical baronies, East Shelmaliere and West Shelmaliere.[3]

The farmers of Shelmalier were accustomed to shooting wild fowl.[4]

The area is mentioned in Patrick Joseph McCall's ballads Kelly the Boy from Killanne and Boolavogue.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Hore, Herbert F. (1859). "A Chorographic Account of the Southern Part of the County of Wexford, Written Anno 1684: By Robert Leigh, Esq., of Rosegarland, in That County. (Concluded)". The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society. 2 (2): 451–467. ISSN 0790-6366.
  2. ↑ O'Donovan, John (1841). "Origin and Meanings of Irish Family Names". The Irish Penny Journal. 1 (42): 330–332. doi:10.2307/30001368. ISSN 2009-0935.
  3. ↑ Shearman, J. F. (1878). "Loca Patriciana: Part XII. The Early Kings of Ossory: The Seven Kings of Cashel Usurpers in Ossory: The Kings of the Silmaelodra-Of the Clan Maelaithgen - Maelduin Mac Cumiscagh-Cearbhall Mac Dungal: The Anglo-Norman Invasion of Ossory, &c., &c. Martin the Elder, a Patrician Missionary in Ossory: His Churches". The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland. 4 (33/34): 336–408. ISSN 0790-6382.
  4. ↑ Watters, John J. (1853). The Natural History of the Birds of Ireland, Indigenous and Migratory: Containing Descriptions of the Habits, Migrations, Occurrence, and Economy, of the 261 Species Comprised in the Fauna. William S. Orr & Co. p. 192.
  5. ↑ Falci, Eric (30 July 2012). Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010. Cambridge University Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-107-01813-6.

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