placenamesMurrisk
Muraisc
Lewis recorded a varied group of businesses whose workforce grew in winter.
Recorded locationMurrisk53.74450° N · 9.80085° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
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
- Muraisc · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Murrisk · English · main form
Place & story
Brewing, salt and stores
Messrs. Graham’s Westport businesses combined a brewery and malting concern with two saltworks, three corn stores on the quay and a tannery in the town. Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account records thirty people employed across these concerns, rising to twice that number in winter. This seasonal total belongs to that group of businesses, rather than to one saltworks or to all manufacturing in the barony of Murrisk. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Murrisk. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Westport: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.