placenamesGarryspillane
Garraí Uí Spealáin
Creamery records place Garryspillane within the farming and co-operative economy of south Limerick.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Garraí Uí Spealáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Garryspillane · English · main form
Place & story
The creamery in 1920
The Irish Bulletin’s July 1920 reports describe British troops burning Garryspillane Co-operative Creamery after an attack on Crowley’s premises in Ballylanders on 25 July. This contemporary republican account links the local dairy business to the destruction of civilian property during the War of Independence. [2]
Butter and the co-operative store
Garryspillane Co-operative Dairy Society appears among the entrants in the creamery butter class of the Munster Agricultural Society’s 1938 summer show catalogue. The district’s agricultural trading role continues through Dairygold’s Garryspillane store, whose own listing identifies an agricultural counter and petrol pump. The later records show continuing dairy and farming activity, without establishing how the earlier creamery was rebuilt or reorganised. [3] [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Civil parish
- Knocklong
- Civil parish
- Ballyscaddan
- Within
- Raheennamadra
- Coordinates
- 52.41199, -8.38213 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 123635 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Garryspillane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Irish Bulletin — July 1920 collection · Irish Bulletin; original issues reproduced by Cork City Libraries
- Munster Agricultural Society — 1938 summer show catalogue, butter class I · Munster Agricultural Society
- Garryspillane — Co-Op Superstores · Dairygold
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.