placenamesBritway
Bréachmhaigh
The parish’s country house appears in records of ownership and occupation.
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
- Bréachmhaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Britway · English · main form
Place & story
The house and its holders
The University of Galway’s estate survey places Ballyvolane House in Britway parish. Drawing on Hajba, it records an early eighteenth-century purchase from the Coppingers by Sir Richard Pyne of Waterpark. At Griffith’s Valuation, Jasper Pine occupied the house, valued at £44, holding it from Thomas, George and Henry Walker. The survey records George M. Pyne there in 1906. [2]
Schools beyond and within the parish
In 1837, Lewis distinguished the joint male and female schools for Britway and Ahern, situated near Ahern, from a hedge school within Britway itself. The latter had about fifty boys and twenty girls. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Barony
- Kinnatalloon
- Coordinates
- 52.04114, -8.16983
- Mapped area
- 16.16 km²
- Logainm ID
- 526 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Britway. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballyvolane, house 3383 · University of Galway, Landed Estates Database
- Britway, 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.