placenamesBallynahaglish
Baile na hEaglaise
Lewis recorded bathing lodges alongside a fishing settlement and a mineral spring.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile na hEaglaise · Irish · main form
- Ballynahaglish · English · main form
Place & story
Lodgings for seasonal visitors
Summer visitors from Tralee and elsewhere frequented Ballynahaglish in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. He linked their visits with the bathing strand in Tralee Bay and a mineral spring on the boundary with Clogherbrien, and recorded bathing lodges built to accommodate them. He also described Taulert, or Chapeltown, on the south-eastern shore of Barra harbour as partly inhabited by fishermen. His account places seasonal lodging beside the working coastal settlement; it does not establish a medical benefit from the spring or describe a present-day bathing facility. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Coordinates
- 52.28666, -9.82145
- Mapped area
- 12.28 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1058 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballynahaglish. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballynahaglish, Kerry: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.