placenamesPiercetown
Baile Phiarais
Lewis’s paired parish accounts date one ecclesiastical connection to 1791.
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 Phiarais · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Piercetown · English · main form
Place & story
The connection with Almoritia
Samuel Lewis recorded that Piercetown’s Church of Ireland rectory was united to Almoritia by episcopal authority in 1791. His 1837 accounts describe the resulting benefice, whose patron was the Bishop of Meath. The Catholic arrangement followed a different grouping: Piercetown belonged to the district of Forgney and had a chapel at Ballinacurra. These were two ecclesiastical arrangements involving the same civil parish, rather than a merger of Piercetown’s civil territory with Almoritia or Forgney. [2] [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Westmeath
- Barony
- Rathconrath
- Coordinates
- 53.55524, -7.60689
- Mapped area
- 14.95 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2489 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Piercetown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Almoritia: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- Piercetown: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.