Editing Gorey (section)

==Name==
While the town and parish were sometimes historically known as Kilmichaelogue ({{irish place name|Cill Mhocheallóg|church of Mocheallóg}}),<ref name="logainmSnippet">{{cite web|url = https://fionstorage.blob.core.windows.net/topoimages/Photograph%20(2)_x_x.jpg | title = Guaire / Gorey (scanned record - SÓD) | publisher = Placenames Database of Ireland | via = logainm.ie | access-date = 15 November 2024 | quote = Dubhairt an Donnoabhánach gur abé Cill Mocheallóg an ainm chaert ar an áit, ach anois is baolach go caithfimíd bethth sásta le "Guaire" }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url = https://publish.ucc.ie/doi/locus/C | via = ucc.ie | title = Onomasticon Goedelicum. locorum et tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae - An index, with identifications, to the Gaelic names of places and tribes | first = Edmund | last = Hogan | place = Dublin | date = 1910 | quote = c. mochellóig [..] old name of Gorey, c. Wex. }}</ref> the town's modern English name may derive from the [[Irish language|Irish]] ''Gabhraighe'', meaning a "a place abounding in [[goat]]s".<ref name="logainmText">{{cite web|url = https://fionstorage.blob.core.windows.net/topoimages/Photograph%20(1).jpg | title = Guaire / Gorey (scanned record - OSNB) | publisher = Placenames Database of Ireland | via = logainm.ie | access-date = 15 November 2024 | quote = OSNB [Ordnance Survey Name Books] "seems to be Irish and to denote gaḃraiġe, a place abounding in goats : but no ancient Irish authority has been yet discovered for the old spelling of the name"}}</ref>

The town was granted a charter as a [[borough]] in 1619, under the name Newborough.<ref name="furlong"/> However, as noted in ''[[A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland]]'' (published in 1837 by [[Samuel Lewis (publisher)|Samuel Lewis]]) and in ''Wexford Guide and Directory'' (published by George Henry Bassett in 1885), this name "never [grew] into general use" as the "inhabitants did not take kindly to the name chosen for the town".<ref name="lewis">{{cite book | chapter-url = https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/G/Gorey-Gorey-Wexford.php | chapter = Gorey | title = A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland | editor-first = Samuel | editor-last = Lewis | publisher = Lewis | date = 1837 | via = libraryireland.com }}</ref><ref name="bassett">{{cite web | url = https://www.libraryireland.com/genealogy/bassett/wexford/gorey.php | publisher = Sealy, Bryers & Walker | title = Wexford County Guide and Directory | last = Bassett | first = George Henry | date = 1885 | access-date = 8 May 2020 | archive-date = 14 July 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210714145839/https://www.libraryireland.com/genealogy/bassett/wexford/gorey.php | url-status = live }}</ref>