placenamesKilbride
Cill Bhríde
Lewis connected local dairy production with Gorey and Enniscorthy.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Bhríde · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilbride · English · main form
Place & story
Farm produce and worked stone
In 1837 Samuel Lewis recorded butter being made in considerable quantities in Kilbride parish and sent to the markets of Gorey and Enniscorthy. His description places grazing alongside arable farming, giving the butter trade a local agricultural setting. He also noted building-stone quarries in operation and jasper found in parts of the parish. The latter was a recorded occurrence, rather than evidence that jasper was being commercially quarried. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Coordinates
- 52.59200, -6.42168
- Mapped area
- 19.51 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2554 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbride. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbride, Wexford — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-03-19. How this page was prepared.