placenamesBallybritt
Baile an Bhriotaigh
Roscrea’s historical parish crossed the boundary between Tipperary and what is now Offaly.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Bhriotaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballybritt · English · main form
Place & story
A court in the market-house
Samuel Lewis placed parts of Roscrea parish in Ballybritt and Clonlisk in King’s County, now Offaly, while locating most of it in Ikerrin, Tipperary. His 1837 town account records a monthly manorial court in the market-house before the seneschal, empowered to recover debts up to £10 Irish. Petty sessions met every Monday. These were town institutions serving the wider district; their buildings should not be assumed to have stood in Ballybritt merely because the parish extended into the barony. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballybritt. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Roscrea: 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.