placenamesBallyadams
Baile Adaim
Lewis’s Tankardstown account links a parish straddling the county boundary with the water route to Waterford.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Adaim · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballyadams · English · main form
Place & story
Farming and river transport
Tankardstown parish extended across Ballyadams in Queen’s County, now Laois, and Kilkea and Moone in Kildare. In 1837 Samuel Lewis described its farming as improving and identified the Barrow navigation as a convenient route for carrying produce to Waterford. He also recorded limestone quarries within the parish. His account connects this part of Ballyadams with a wider riverside economy crossing the county boundary; the observations concern Tankardstown as a whole. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyadams. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tankardstown: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.