placenamesPubblebrien
Pobal Bhriain
Lewis’s village account connects farm production with communications on the Limerick road.
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
- Pobal Bhriain · Irish · main form · validated name
- Pubblebrien · English · main form
Place & story
Apples beyond the village street
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Patrickswell in Pubblebrien describes farmhouses in the neighbourhood with thriving orchards and apples used to make cider. The village itself lay on the road to Rathkeale, with the Limerick–Tralee mail passing daily and a recently established penny post to Limerick. His observations give the surrounding farming district a place alongside the village street in this account of local production and communications. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Pubblebrien. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Patrick’s Well (St.): 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.