placenamesBallyseedy
Bailte Ó Síoda
Lewis recorded a recently built subscription school serving another parish need.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Bailte Ó Síoda · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballyseedy · English · main form
Place & story
A schoolhouse used for services
Church of Ireland services in Ballyseedy parish took place in the schoolhouse at Farmer’s Bridge when Samuel Lewis wrote in 1837. He described the schoolhouse as recently erected under the auspices of the Reverend A. B. Rowan of Belmont. Subscribers paid for its construction and continuing support. A separate school was supervised by the Catholic clergyman; Lewis counted about a hundred children in the two schools together. His account also placed the ruined older church and its burial ground within Ballyseedy demesne. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Coordinates
- 52.24357, -9.64641
- Mapped area
- 13.83 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1059 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyseedy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballyseedy, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-10-16. How this page was prepared.