placenamesGilltown
Inse Breisleáin
Lewis recorded a contrast between productive farmland and scarce fuel.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Inse Breisleáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Gilltown · English · main form
Place & story
Farming and fuel in 1837
Gilltown’s arable land was noted for wheat in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. He described a parish of fields and pasture beside a small mountain stream, with a smaller area of woodland. Yet fuel was scarce: turf had to be brought from seven or eight miles away. The account gives a practical detail of rural supply, showing that the availability of land for crops and grazing did not mean fuel was readily available nearby. Lewis did not identify the bogs from which the turf came. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Naas South
- Coordinates
- 53.10078, -6.70087
- Mapped area
- 20.73 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1174 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Gilltown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Giltown, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.