placenamesPalmerston
Baile Phámar
Lewis recorded about 120 workers in the parish’s cotton mills in 1837.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Baile Phámar · Irish · main form · validated name
- Palmerston · English · main form
- Palmerstown · English · main form · local name
Place & story
Different industries at different dates
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Palmerstown account recorded large cotton mills employing about one hundred and twenty people, together with a flour mill on the Liffey. He separately looked back to printing, iron, oil, dyestuff and washing works at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Those earlier works should not all be treated as factories he confirmed operating in 1837. The account also places a city-police station near Chapelizod Bridge and records a cattle and horse fair on 21 August. These details concern the Liffey-side parish west of Dublin, distinct from Palmerstown parish in Balrothery. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Uppercross
- Coordinates
- 53.35281, -6.39119
- Mapped area
- 6.12 km²
- Logainm ID
- 871 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Palmerston. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Palmerstown, Newcastle barony, 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.