Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ballybrittas

Ballybrittas, vil., Lea par., NE. Queen's co., 9 miles NE. of Maryborough, pop. 164; P.O. The English, under the Earl of Essex, were defeated here in 1599.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Laoighis IrlC
Place: Ballybrittas

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