placenamesArdea
Oireadh
Lewis explicitly placed these buildings in Ardea while describing the wider Coolbanagher union.
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
- Oireadh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ardea · English · main form
Place & story
Buildings within Ardea
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Coolbanagher specifically locates its glebe-house in Ardea, giving the house a construction date of 1790. He also places the union’s church in Ardea, on a hill towards the union’s southern end, and credits the late Lord Portarlington with paying for it. [2]
A union formed in 1804
Ardea and Coolbanagher’s rectories were united in 1804, according to Lewis. His account distinguishes the individual parishes from their combined benefice. The church and house locations are therefore specific statements about Ardea, rather than assumptions based on everything described under the neighbouring parish’s heading. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Portnahinch
- Coordinates
- 53.11519, -7.29426
- Mapped area
- 31.29 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1415 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ardea. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Coolbanagher: Ardea church, glebe-house and union — 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.