placenamesIrishtown
An Baile Gaelach
An Ordnance Survey field-name book recorded a mixed urban landscape within Saint John’s parish.
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
- An Baile Gaelach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Irishtown · English · main form
Place & story
The landscape recorded in 1840
The Ordnance Survey’s 1840 field-name book describes Irishtown as a sixty-two-acre townland, chiefly occupied by buildings forming part of Limerick city. Some ground remained cultivated: the survey lists potatoes, corn, wheat and flax growing in its deep soil. It places Irishtown at the western end of Saint John’s parish, beside Monamuck and Mill-alee. The entry records agricultural plots within an already predominantly built-up townland. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Limerick City
- Civil parish
- Saint John's
- Within
- Limerick
- Coordinates
- 52.66366, -8.61795
- Mapped area
- 0.25 km²
- Logainm ID
- 30543 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Irishtown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Field Name Books of County and City of Limerick,1840: Saint John’s parish, Irishtown, manuscript page1519/entry2 · Ordnance Survey of Ireland; John O’Donovan; reproduced by Limerick Local Studies
- 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 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.