placenamesO'Briensbridge
Droichead Uí Bhriain
Lewis records a substantial riverside village employer in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Droichead Uí Bhriain · Irish · main form
- O'Briensbridge · English · main form
Place & story
The mill of Hood and Boyd
Samuel Lewis described a large flour and oatmeal mill at O’Brien’s Bridge, worked by steam and owned by Messrs Hood and Boyd, formerly of Glasgow. In 1837 he recorded employment for fifty men. The mill stood within a village of about sixty houses, on a Shannon route served by daily packet boats to Dublin and Limerick. His account places grain processing alongside the settlement’s river traffic. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.76424, -8.57214
- Mapped area
- 46.14 km²
- Logainm ID
- 488 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — O'Briensbridge. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- O’Brien’s-Bridge: 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.