Irish (EN) / Erys (KW)

Type: 
Settlement
Parish: 
St Breward
Hundred: 
Triggshire
Elements: 

erys

Meaning: 
ploughland
Elements notes: 
EMF: OWS<ersc> ‘stubble field’ [Note: The final "e" in the historic forms is the Saxon dative suffix.]ECF: <erys> ‘ploughland’
Historic forms: 
Yrushe 1520/21 (St Breward)(CRO/X793/108) Arishes c1550 (Gover, 1948) Ershes 1572 (Gover, 1948) Irishe 1577 (Gover, 1948) Arches 1577 (Gover, 1948) Erishe 1583/4 (tenement, lands & premises)(?St Breward)(CRO/X793/109) Erish 1599 (NA/X793/111) Erishe 1599 (CRO/X793/110) Arches or Irishes 1600 (messuage or tenement in)(CRO/X793/112) Erish 1600 (CRO/X793/113) Erishes 1603 (CRO/X793/114) Erish 1604 (CRO/X793/115) Erishes 1519-1652 (CRO/X793/116) Arches 1663 (CRO/X793/117) Arches or Erishes or Inshes 1663 (CRO/X793/120) Erish 1681 (CRO/X21/2/1/11) Irishes 1682 (2 tenements in)(?St Breward)(CRO/X21/2/1/15) Erish 1701 (Gover, 1948)