placenamesStraboe
Srúbh Bó
Lewis described a later house occupying an older castle site.
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
- Srúbh Bó · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Straboe · English · main form
Place & story
Walls, chimneys and a corner turret
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Straboe described a castellated mansion built on the site of Morett Castle. Its surviving walls carried chimney stacks on the side walls and gables, with a turret at one corner, but its interior had been destroyed. He also recorded a separate building roughly 200 yards south, across a small stream, which he thought was an ancient chapel. That identification was tentative, and his description records the remains as they stood in his time. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Maryborough East
- Coordinates
- 53.05415, -7.26049
- Mapped area
- 26.61 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1460 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Straboe. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Straboe, 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.