placenamesBunratty
Bun Raite
Lewis’s 1837 account describes a landing place supplying fuel and agricultural material.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Bun Raite · Irish · main form
- Bunratty · English · main form
Place & story
Supplies arriving by water
Samuel Lewis described a quay near Bunratty’s single-arched bridge over the Ougarnee in 1837. He credited Mr Studdert with constructing both bridge and quay, and reported plans to enlarge the landing place. Large boats could reach it. Sea manure was landed for the surrounding district, while turf arrived from Kilrush. Lewis also described Bunratty Roads, the anchorage off Quay Island in the Shannon, as a place where West India vessels discharged cargoes destined for Limerick. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.70331, -8.82762 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 15.65 km²
- Logainm ID
- 412 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Bunratty. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Bunratty, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.