placenamesBannow
Banú
Lewis records nineteenth-century trade and an earlier experiment in agricultural education.
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
- Banú · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Bannow · English · main form
Place & story
Cargoes at Newtown
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Bannow account identifies Newtown quay as a landing and storage place for coal, culm and Welsh slate. Timber arrived from Waterford. Corn was occasionally shipped there, although most went to Wexford by road. Boats also brought limestone up the bay from Slade on the Hook peninsula. His description documents trade continuing around Bannow Bay beyond the vanished medieval town. [2]
A school combining study and farm work
Lewis also records an agricultural school conducted by the Reverend W. Hickey, then vicar, on forty acres provided by S. Boyse. Pupils divided their time between study and agricultural labour. Hickey presented evidence about the establishment to a parliamentary committee in 1830. After he moved to another benefice the school declined, and by Lewis’s account its building was being used as a farmhouse. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Bannow. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Bannow: 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.