placenamesBallinacor North
Baile na Corra Thuaidh
The small village already accommodated Dublin visitors before the Vartry reservoirs were built.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile na Corra Thuaidh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballinacor North · English · main form
Place & story
An inn among nineteen houses
Samuel Lewis counted nineteen houses at Roundwood in 1837 and described visitors arriving from Dublin for the mountain scenery and nearby lakes. An inn and smaller lodging houses accommodated them. The village also served a trading hinterland: its fair calendar included cattle on 3 January and 14 March, and frieze cloth on 8 March and 5 and 19 September. Tourism and textile trading thus appear together in this early account of the village. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballinacor North. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Roundwood: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2015-07-08. How this page was prepared.