placenamesFarbill
Fir Bhile
Lewis recorded estate engineering and quarry exports in the Killucan district.
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
- Fir Bhile · Irish · main form
- Farbill · English · main form
Place & story
Working the local ground
In 1837 Samuel Lewis described a newly laid railway at Griffinstown, installed by Mr. Fetherston-Haugh for draining the estate’s bog. His Killucan parish account also recorded black flagstone quarries that supplied material for Dublin’s Custom House docks. A different quarry on Sion Hill resembled slate but remained unworked. These observations distinguish an active estate drainage project and a recorded stone supply from a deposit whose extraction had not begun. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Farbill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killucan: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.