placenamesScarawalsh
Scairbh Bhailis
Lewis recorded a village workforce employed in flour and textile mills.
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
- Scairbh Bhailis · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Scarawalsh · English · main form
Place & story
Two kinds of mill work
In 1837 Samuel Lewis described Clohamon’s residents as chiefly employed in William Lewis’s flour and cotton mills. The cotton works produced an average of about two hundred pieces each week; this was cloth output, rather than flour production or a count of workers. His Kilrush parish account places this industrial activity beside the Slaney and its bridges, within a district where limestone for agricultural use was brought from County Carlow. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Scarawalsh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilrush, Wexford: 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.