placenamesBuolick
Buailic
Lewis recorded coal production and new workings on Mark Byrne’s estate in 1837.
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
- Buailic · Irish · main form · validated name
- Buolick · English · main form
Place & story
Coal being worked
Coal was already being obtained in substantial quantities in Buolick when Samuel Lewis described the parish in 1837. He also reported that new workings were being opened on the estate of Mark Byrne. His account places the parish near the Kilkenny boundary, along the road between Johnstown and Killenaule, without locating the individual workings or giving their output. [2]
A former Butler residence
Lewis described substantial remains of a strongly built castle that had been a residence of the Butler family, Viscounts Ikerrin. He recorded its ownership at that time as R. La Touche. The account supplies an early nineteenth-century description of the surviving structure, rather than a construction date or evidence that it was still occupied. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Slievardagh
- Coordinates
- 52.64870, -7.60604
- Mapped area
- 28.83 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2251 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Buolick. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Buolick or Baolick — 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.