placenamesStradbally
An Sráidbhaile
Lewis recorded the small prison attached to the town’s courthouse.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- An Sráidbhaile · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Stradbally · English · main form
Place & story
Courtrooms and confinement
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Stradbally account describes a bridewell attached to the courthouse, containing three cells, two day-rooms and an exercise yard. General sessions of the peace met in the town twice yearly, while petty sessions took place on alternate Fridays. The small institution belonged to this regular pattern of local justice, alongside the town’s constabulary station, dispensary and savings bank. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Stradbally. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Stradbally, Queen’s County: 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.