placenamesBallyburly
Baile an Bhuirléigh
Lewis credited G. and S. Rait with agricultural changes and recorded practical uses for the parish’s stone.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Bhuirléigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballyburly · English · main form
Place & story
A change in farming practice
Samuel Lewis described a Scottish system of agriculture introduced in Ballyburly by G. and S. Rait about twenty years before his 1837 account. It combined a rotation of corn and green crops with drill husbandry. He associated G. Rait with Rathmoyle and S. Rait with Clonin, giving two named local connections for the farming changes he described. [2]
Stone for buildings and roads
Limestone was plentiful in the parish. Lewis recorded its use in building and road-making, with some stone burned to produce lime. He also noted petty sessions at Fahy near Rhode on alternate Wednesdays, placing local judicial business within the parish’s network of settlements. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Offaly
- Barony
- Warrenstown
- Barony
- Philipstown Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.35031, -7.21584
- Mapped area
- 31.81 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2003 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyburly. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballyburley or Primult — 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.