placenamesGeashill
Géisill
Lewis recorded an estate activity beyond the village’s market and castle.
Recorded locationGeashill53.23134° N · 7.38621° 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
- Géisill · Irish · main form · validated name
- Geashill · English · main form
Place & story
Raising trees in 1837
The Earl Digby maintained substantial nurseries of forest trees in Geashill parish, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. His account placed them in a landscape of deep clay over limestone gravel, with extensive bog and some building stone. Lewis considered agricultural improvement limited at that date. The nurseries thus form part of his description of the wider estate landscape before the later village rebuilding schemes. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Offaly
- Barony
- Philipstown Upper
- Barony
- Geashill
- Coordinates
- 53.23134, -7.38621
- Mapped area
- 178.88 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2023 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Geashill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Geashill: 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.