placenamesTalbotstown Upper
Baile an Talbóidigh Uachtarach
Ballynure’s fertile farmland depended on an outside source of fuel in Lewis’s 1837 account.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Talbóidigh Uachtarach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Talbotstown Upper · English · main form
Place & story
Arable land and a fuel shortage
Samuel Lewis described Ballynure, in Upper Talbotstown, as almost entirely arable and without bog or waste land. That productive landscape had a practical drawback: fuel was scarce. His 1837 account says inhabitants obtained it from the bog of Narraghmore, five miles away. This records a particular parish’s dependence on an outside supply, rather than conditions throughout the barony. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Talbotstown Upper. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballynure: 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.