page_title: Aughanduff
section_title: Etymology
hierarchical_section_title: Aughanduff / Etymology
context_page_description: Aughanduff is a small hamlet and townland in the civil parish of Forkhill, in the former barony of Orior Upper, 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. Aughanduff has been populated since prehistoric times and has been recorded as a distinct district since at least the early 1600s. 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 forming part of the northern border of the Irish Free State by the Irish Boundary Commission in its final report of 1925. 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.
context_section_description: "Aughanduff" (also spelt "Annduff") is commonly said to derive from the Irish  Áth an Daimh, meaning "ford of the oxen" (or "oxford"), with the relevant ford being one across Balina stream which separates the townland from neighbouring Carricknagavina. It has also been argued, however, that the name comes from the Irish Achadh Dubh meaning "black fields". The spelling used for official purposes is Aughanduff, 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 VI & I);
  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);
  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));
  Aghaduffe - BSD, 3, 1661 (the Books of Survey and Distribution);
  Aghaduffe - HMR Murray (1941), 131, 1664 (the Hearth Money Rolls 1664);
  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).
caption: View of Forkhill and the Doorbrin mountains at dusk, from Aughanduff
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