placenamesBallinacarrig
Baile na Carraige
Lewis’s account places milling beside an improving agricultural district.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile na Carraige · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballinacarrig · English · main form
Place & story
Production beside the Burren
In 1837 Samuel Lewis described Ballinacarrig, also called Staplestown, as a farming parish beside the Burren and the Carlow–Tullow road. About two-thirds of its land was arable, with nearly a third used for pasture or wet grazing. Granite quarries supplied building stone. Mills in the parish produced about ten thousand barrels of flour annually, according to his account. He also named a residence at Staplestown Mills belonging to a man surnamed Mason, but supplied no first name. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballinacarrig. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballinacarrig or Staplestown, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.