placenamesBallybrood
Baile Bhrúid
Lewis described quarrying and farming where limestone met the basalt hill.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Bhrúid · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballybrood · English · main form
Place & story
Stone put to agricultural use
Ballybrood’s hill and farmland presented a striking change of rock in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. Basalt formed the hill, but limestone began beyond a small stream between the parish church and glebe-house. Large quantities of that limestone were quarried and burnt locally for use as fertiliser. Lewis listed wheat, barley, oats and potatoes among the principal crops. About half the parish was arable, with meadow and pasture making up most of the rest, alongside a small amount of bog. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Coordinates
- 52.56028, -8.45371
- Mapped area
- 9.56 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1506 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballybrood. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballybrood, 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.