Turrbal People

Australia still is inhabited by indigenous Australian tribal groups and one of these groups where the Turrbal people. Turrbal people were the first people to find Brisbane before the European settlers came in 1825, and they are the original land owners of Ashgrove. The Europeans claimed an area which they thought was nothing, but in this area Turrbal people had already discovered this land and where using it. There land extended from far inland to the Gold Creek or Moggill or as far as North Pine, and the South of the Logan River.  In the early 1900’s other tribal groups tried to claim Brisbane as their homeland.

The Turrbal people were very territorial about their land and if another tribe crossed their lad they would have been killed on site. The roads were the borders and the most popular one was boundary road.

Some of the Turrbal people’s path ways are still in Brisbane today but have just changed the tribal names. Waterworks road in Ashgrove was built on a Turrbal pathway which led up to
Mt-Coot-Tha, it was their place of the honey bee.