placenamesBurry
Borraidh
Lewis described a parish supplying fuel as well as farming and quarrying.
Recorded locationBurry53.70131° N · 6.93205° 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
- Borraidh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Burry · English · main form
Place & story
Bog and quarries
Burry’s bog supplied part of the turf used in nearby Kells, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. He also recorded limestone and greenstone quarries in the parish, whose farmland was divided almost equally between tillage and pasture. His description connects the rural parish with the town’s fuel supply while distinguishing its two quarried stone types. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Kells Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.70131, -6.93205
- Mapped area
- 14.91 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1836 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Burry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Burry, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-10-24. How this page was prepared.