placenamesDerrygalvin
Doire Uí Ghealbháin
Meadowland linked this rural parish to the city’s demand for milk and butter in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Doire Uí Ghealbháin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Derrygalvin · English · main form
Place & story
Farming for a nearby city
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account places Derrygalvin on the Tipperary road southeast of Limerick. About half its land was under tillage, while the remainder was meadow attached to large dairy farms supplying the city with milk and butter. He named Coolanave, Ballyclough House and Killonan House among the parish’s residences. The combination of cultivated fields and dairy meadows gives a more varied picture than pasture alone: the parish produced crops while also serving the nearby urban market. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Coordinates
- 52.64142, -8.53687
- Mapped area
- 6.47 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1531 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Derrygalvin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Derrygalvin, 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.