placenamesBalrothery West
Baile an Ridire Thiar
A house built in 1791 was already in ruins when Lewis described the parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Ridire Thiar · Irish · main form · validated name
- Balrothery West · English · main form
Place & story
A short recorded building history
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Garristown account records a clergy residence built in 1791 but already ruined by the time of his survey. The parish retained a glebe of twenty-five acres. Lewis described its church as a plain building, distinguishing the place of worship from the lost residence. His account gives no explanation for the house’s condition. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Balrothery West. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Garristown, Dublin: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.