placenamesPeppardstown
Baile Bhriodúnach
Lewis described a farmhouse inside the surviving defensive walls.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Baile Bhriodúnach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Peppardstown · English · main form
Place & story
Knockelly in 1837
Knockelly Castle was a conspicuous landmark in Peppardstown parish when Samuel Lewis described it in 1837 under the name Pepperstown. Its square tower remained largely intact within surrounding walls that he estimated at about thirty feet high, with bastions at the corners. A farmhouse occupied part of the enclosed ground. Lewis thus recorded agricultural use within the castle’s defences, while distinguishing the ruined castle complex from its surviving tower. His account does not identify who built the farmhouse or when that use began. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Coordinates
- 52.49103, -7.64857
- Mapped area
- 19.22 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2320 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Peppardstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Pepperstown, 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.