Ballyadams

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Ballyadams
Baile Adaim (Irish)
Barony
Barony map of Queen's County, 1900; Ballyadams is orange and in the east.
Barony map of Queen's County, 1900; Ballyadams is orange and in the east.
Sovereign stateRepublic of Ireland
ProvinceLeinster
CountyLaois
Area
 • Total97.45 km2 (37.63 sq mi)

Ballyadams (Irish: Baile Adaim[1]) is a barony in County Laois (formerly called Queen's County or County Leix), Republic of Ireland.[2][3][4]

Etymology[]

Ballyadams barony is named after , a 15th-century fortified house near Ballylynan.[citation needed]

Geography[]

Ballyadams is located in the east of the county, north of the and west of the River Barrow (where it forms part of the border with County Kildare). It is a limestone region, with some anthracite coal being mined in the past.[5]

History[]

Ancient chiefs in the area include the Uí Caollaidhe (Keely), who were chiefs of Críoch Uí mBuidhe.[6]

It is referred to in the topographical poem Tuilleadh feasa ar Éirinn óigh (Giolla na Naomh Ó hUidhrín, d. 1420):

Críoch Ó mBuidhe an fhóid fhinntigh
ós Bearbha mbuig mbraoinlinntigh;
 d’Ó Chaolluidhe as caomh an chríoch,
aoghoire nár fhaomh eissíoth

("Crioch O-mbuidhe of the fair sod, Along the Barrow of the bright pools, To O'Caollaidhe the territory is fair, A shepherd prepared to encounter enemies.")[7]

The Uí Caollaidhe were expelled during the Laois-Offaly Plantation of the 16th century, and took land at Kylenabehy.[8] Ballyadams went to the Bowen family, including Robert Bowen (High Sheriff of Queen's County 1579) and Lucy Bowen (wife of William Southwell).

List of settlements[]

Below is a list of settlements in Ballyadams barony:

References[]

  1. ^ "Baile Adaim/Ballyadams". Logainm.ie.
  2. ^ "Ballyadams". www.townlands.ie.
  3. ^ "Search Results - " Land use surveys Ireland Ballyadams..." catalogue.nli.ie.
  4. ^ "Abbas Combe to Eyworth". 7 July 1868 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Commons, Great Britain Parliament House of (7 July 2018). "Sessional papers. Inventory control record 1" – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Woulfe, Patrick. "Ó Caollaidhe - Irish Names and Surnames". www.libraryireland.com.
  7. ^ "Irish Chiefs and Clans in Ossory, Offaley, Leix". www.libraryireland.com.
  8. ^ "Some Notes on the Kealy Family". kealyfamily.com.
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