placenames1901 census
18People recorded
6Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Early 5
- Carberry 3
- Cosgrave 3
- Reilly 3
- Brannigan 2
Adamstown
Baile Adaim
This Adamstown belongs to Garristown parish in north County Dublin, where a traditional house and a recorded mound preserve different layers of the rural landscape.
Recorded locationAdamstown53.55295° N · 6.35830° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
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 Adaim · Irish · main form · validated name
- Adamstown · English · main form
Place & story
A name in seventeenth-century records
The Placenames Branch identifies Adamstown as a townland of Garristown parish in the barony of Balrothery West. Its historical references include Adamston in 1614 and Adamistowne in 1615. The form Adamstowne occurs in the seventeenth-century Civil Survey, Down Survey and Hearth Money Rolls, tracing the name through several different kinds of administrative record. [2]
The crossroads cottage
The architectural inventory records a four-bay, single-storey thatched house at Adamstown, dating it to around 1800. A projecting porch marks the entrance, while the roof has distinctively curved hipped ends. This is domestic vernacular architecture on a modest scale, preserving a building tradition quite different from the district’s larger country houses. [3]
A recorded mound
The National Monuments Service’s 1998 Dublin inventory lists a burial mound in Adamstown under reference DU 004-018. It provides an archaeological record within the townland alongside the much later thatched house. The inventory entry alone does not establish a construction date or identify the people buried there. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Balrothery West
- Civil parish
- Garristown
- Within
- Garristown
- Coordinates
- 53.55295, -6.35830
- Mapped area
- 2.29 km²
- Logainm ID
- 16824 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
20People recorded
6Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Earley 7
- Barker 2
- Carberry 2
- Cosgrove 2
- Dowdall 2
1926 census
19People recorded
5Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Earley 6
- Kiernan 5
- Carberry 4
- Barker 2
- Reilly 2
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Adamstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Adamstown, canonical townland and historical references, record 16824 · Placenames Branch and Gaois, DCU
- Adamstown thatched house, record 11314001, vernacular and thatch survey search · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- County Dublin Record of Monuments and Places, 1998: DU 004-018 · National Monuments Service
- 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 2024-08-20. How this page was prepared.