placenamesCaherelly
Cathair Ailí
Lewis recorded a market patent granted to Michael Furnell.
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 Ailí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Caherelly · English · main form
Place & story
Four dates in the year
Michael Furnell received a patent for a market and four fairs at Caherelly, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. The fair dates were 14 May, 26 August, 6 November and 21 December. Lewis recorded the permission but gave no attendance figures or market day, so these dates do not establish the scale or regular operation of the gatherings. He placed the parish on the north–south road from Limerick to Hospital, with the Limerick–Cork mail-coach road passing near its western edge. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Coordinates
- 52.54935, -8.50344
- Mapped area
- 11.1 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1516 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Caherelly. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cahirelly or Ballybricken: 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.