Field Name Books of Limerick

Field Name Books of the County and City of Limerick with the Place-Names, English and Irish, as explained and fixed by John O'Donovan. Ordnance Survey of Ireland 1839-40.

With the addition of The Ordnance Survey Letters for Co. Limerick.

 Presented alphabetically, on a parish-by-parish basis.

The Field Name Books of the County and City of Limerick is a collection of more than 1,700 pages of notes taken by surveyors during the first ordnance survey of County Limerick, c. 1840. They comprise a vast quantity of data on the geography, place names, antiquities and other miscellaneous information relating to Limerick.

Supplementary to the Field Name Books are the Ordnance Survey Letters, correspondence between the surveyors in the field and the central office in Dublin – these letters contain useful additional materials.

Note also the appendices – Names of Houses… and Name Books of the Rivers Shannon & Fergus respectively.

Arranged alphabetically by Civil Parish*

*’Limerick City’ includes parishes of St. John, St. Lawrence, St. Mary, St. Michael, St. Munchin, St. Nicholas, St. Patrick

For Castleconnell see no. 123 Stradbally
For Kilmallock see no. 121 St. Peter’s & St. Paul’s
For Glenbrohane parish see no. 14 Ballingarry

Note also the appendices – Names of Houses… and Name Books of the Rivers Shannon & Fergus respectively.

Arranged alphabetically by Civil Parish*

*’Limerick City’ includes parishes of St. John, St. Lawrence, St. Mary, St. Michael, St. Munchin, St. Nicholas, St. Patrick

For Castleconnell see no. 123 Stradbally
For Kilmallock see no. 121 St. Peter’s & St. Paul’s
For Glenbrohane parish see no. 14 Ballingarry