placenamesNaas North
An Nás Thuaidh
Lewis described produce moving towards the capital and manure coming back from it.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- An Nás Thuaidh · Irish · main form
- Naas North · English · main form
Place & story
A farming district beside the canal
The Grand Canal near Bodenstown helped carry corn and potatoes to Dublin in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. The capital also supplied manure to the parish, connecting urban waste with rural cultivation. About three-quarters of Bodenstown’s land was pasture used to fatten livestock for the Dublin and Liverpool markets, with the remainder under tillage. This was a farming economy tied to buyers well beyond the parish. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Naas North. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Bodenstown, Kildare: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-04-01. How this page was prepared.