placenamesCaheravally
Cathair an Bhachlaigh
Lewis described iron-and-sulphur water at Liccadoen in his 1837 parish account.
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
- Cathair an Bhachlaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Caheravally · English · main form
Place & story
The spa at Liccadoen
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Caheravally, under the name Cahirvally, recorded a mineral spring at Liccadoen. He described its water as strongly impregnated with iron and sulphur, but reported that the spa was neglected and other water was being allowed to mix with it. His account places the parish on the Limerick–Fedamore road, amid cultivated land, meadow, pasture and demesnes. The spring’s reported condition belongs to that nineteenth-century description. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Coordinates
- 52.59578, -8.59526
- Logainm ID
- 1513 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Caheravally. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cahirvally or Cahirvallagh, 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.