Ireby in the Domesday Book (1086)
Ireby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Amounderness
- Aighton
- Aldcliffe
- Aldingham
- Arkholme
- Aschebi
- Ashton [Hall]
- Ashton [on Ribble]
- Austwick
- Barbon
- Bardsea
- Bare
- Barnoldswick
- Barton
- Beetham
The Meaning of the Name
The name Ireby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.
Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Ireby.
Listed Buildings Near Ireby
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Ireby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Stables West of Over Hall - 0.41 km
- Over Hall - 0.44 km
Grade II
- Clapper Bridge in Centre of Village - 0.16 km
- Bainbridge House - 0.17 km
- Dale House - 0.83 km
- Masongill Lodge - 0.88 km
- Heber House - 0.94 km
- Masongill House - 0.98 km
- Ireby Hall Farmhouse - 1.0 km
Ireby Today
Today Ireby lies within the administrative area of Lancaster, and the settlement recorded a population of 79 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Ireby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Lower Leck - 1.4 km NW
- Thornton in Lonsdale - 2.8 km SE
- Burton in Lonsdale - 3.0 km S
- Barnoldswick - 4.1 km S
- Cantsfield - 4.2 km SW
- Thirnby Wood - 4.5 km NW
Heritage Around Ireby
Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.
© Chris Heaton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John S Turner · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John S Turner · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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