placenamesBurrishoole
Buiríos Umhaill
Lewis recorded disused industrial sites within a parish better known for its lakes and abbey.
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
- Buiríos Umhaill · Irish · main form · validated name
- Burrishoole · English · main form
Place & story
Ruined furnaces beside the water
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description records an old smelting furnace in ruins on the narrow ground between the parish’s two lakes, named Lough Feagh and Lough Furnace. He noted another furnace at the old abbey and separately reported that salt works had formerly operated in Burrishoole. The account establishes earlier industrial activity without naming the metal smelted, the operators, or the dates when these works ceased. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Mayo
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Coordinates
- 53.89155, -9.57686
- Mapped area
- 223.79 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1766 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Burrishoole. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Burrishoole: 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.