placenamesBallysax
Baile Shacsa
Lewis distinguished an endowed school from a separate fund for poor inhabitants.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Shacsa · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballysax · English · main form
Place & story
Subscriptions and an endowment
In 1837 Samuel Lewis recorded a Ballysax school supported by local subscriptions and an endowment left by the Reverend William Tew. Another school was connected with the National Board. Together these two schools taught about sixty boys and forty girls. Lewis listed a separate pay school with twenty boys and twenty girls, keeping its attendance distinct from the other schools’ combined figures. [2]
A fund for the poor
Tew also left £50 invested at three and a half per cent for the benefit of the poor. This was a separate charitable bequest from his support for education; Lewis did not give the school endowment’s value. His account does not name the pupils, explain eligibility for assistance or identify a surviving school building. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Offaly East
- Coordinates
- 53.12593, -6.84627
- Mapped area
- 28.76 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1250 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballysax. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballysax: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-01-08. How this page was prepared.