placenamesReisk
An Riasc
Lewis described former mineral workings within the parish’s rocky hill country.
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
- An Riasc · Irish · main form · validated name
- Reisk · English · main form
Place & story
Former workings in a conical hill
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account identifies a small conical hill called Cruach within an open space among Reisk’s hills. He reported a vein of lead ore containing silver and said it had formerly been worked extensively. This is a historical account of mineral working, without a measured silver grade, production total or date for the workings’ closure. [2]
Hills around Ballyscanlan lake
Lewis described a ridge dividing into two branches around the low ground and lake of Ballyscanlan. His account of the district around Pembrokestown emphasised steep rocky hills separated by small sheltered patches of good land. Those descriptions place the reported mineral workings within a varied parish landscape, rather than treating the entire parish as one mine site. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Coordinates
- 52.18008, -7.23022
- Mapped area
- 15.43 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2420 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Reisk. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Reisk: 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.