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Ballydavid

Baile Dháith

Samuel Lewis recorded both a wooded Galtee landscape and a residence named Ballydavid House.

Recorded locationBallydavid52.41367° N · 8.04501° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

bailetownland, town, homestead

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • Baile Dháith · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Ballydavid · English · main form

Place & story

Woodland and a named residence

Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Bansha, or Templeneiry, described Ballydavid as an extensive wood on the Galtees. He listed oak, beech, birch, larch, fir and Weymouth pine among its trees, distinguishing it from Bansha Wood on the Tipperary hills. The same entry named G. Baker as the resident at Ballydavid House. These are dated descriptions of the locality’s woodland and estate landscape; they do not establish the present condition or extent of the wood. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tipperary
Civil parish
Templeneiry
Coordinates
52.41367, -8.04501
Mapped area
6.84 km²
Logainm ID
48980 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Ballydavid. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Bansha, or Templeneiry: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.