placenamesBallyshannon
Baile Shonnáin
Lewis recorded an educational gift that had not yet achieved its stated purpose.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Baile Shonnáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballyshannon · English · main form
Place & story
Carrighill lands for a school
Dame Annesley bequeathed the lands of Carrighill in Ballyshannon parish to establish and support a school, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account under the name Ballysonan. The bequest had not yet been applied to that purpose, and the rector was trying to make it available. Lewis separately recorded an existing school attended by thirty boys and thirty girls; he did not identify it as the fulfilment of Annesley’s bequest. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Offaly East
- Barony
- Offaly West
- Coordinates
- 53.10010, -6.85182
- Mapped area
- 9.7 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1251 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyshannon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballysonan, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-08-27. How this page was prepared.