placenamesBear
Béarra
Lewis’s Bere Island account records boats sheltered at Lawrence Cove.
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
- Béarra · Irish · main form · validated name
- Bear · English · main form
Place & story
A pier serving hookers and yawls
Samuel Lewis recorded a pier at Lawrence Cove sheltering Bere Island’s fishing boats in 1837: sixteen hookers of twelve tons and ninety yawls of three or four tons. He estimated that about a thousand people worked exclusively in the island’s fishery. His account also describes boats connecting the island with Castletown and other mainland places. These figures concern Bere Island within the barony of Bear, rather than the whole barony’s fleet. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Bear. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Bere or Bear Island: 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.