placenamesBalrothery
Baile an Ridire
Lewis recorded a reservoir called the Knock supplying the neighbouring town’s industry.
The name
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 an Ridire · Irish · main form · validated name
- Baile Ruairí · Irish · main form · historical name
- Balrothery · English · main form
Place & story
A reservoir near the glebe
A twenty-two-acre reservoir near Balrothery’s glebe supplied the mills of Balbriggan when Samuel Lewis described the parish in 1837. He called it the Knock. His account links this water supply with a parish landscape also worked for building stone, including a quarry at Curtlagh and stone obtained from the cliffs. The coastal railway was still prospective in his description: he wrote that the Dublin–Drogheda line would pass through the parish. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Coordinates
- 53.59537, -6.18828
- Mapped area
- 28.01 km²
- Logainm ID
- 832 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Balrothery. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Balrothery: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-01-19. How this page was prepared.