placenamesBallinaclashet
Baile na Claise
Records of schooling, coastguard employment and Civil War imprisonment give Ballinaclashet several distinct places in the history of the Kinsale hinterland.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile na Claise · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballinaclashet · English · main form
Place & story
The closing of the village school
Ballinaclashet National School closed around 1967–68, according to the history maintained by Scoil Naomh Fionán at Rennies. Its pupils then travelled by bus to the receiving school. This was a change in the geography of everyday education: children who had attended a school in their own locality became part of a larger catchment. The account preserves the approximate date rather than identifying a single definitive closure day. [2]
A coastguard dispute reaches Westminster
Ballinaclashet appeared in a House of Commons question on 7 July 1913. Mr Crean asked whether coastguards from Kinsale and Oysterhaven had been employed on painting and other private work at Commander Nash's residence, Newborn. The Admiralty reply disputed the suggestion that this was official-hours labour, stating that two or sometimes four men had worked there in their spare time. The exchange records both the allegation and the official response. [3]
William Sullivan and the Newbridge escape
William Sullivan of Ballinaclashet is listed among the Cork prisoners who escaped from Newbridge Barracks during the Civil War. Historian James Durney's account dates the mass breakout to 14–15 October 1922, when prisoners used tunnels connected to the barracks' sewer system and reached a disused sawmill by the Liffey. Sullivan's appearance in the escape list gives the locality a specific connection with events well beyond County Cork. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballinaclashet. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- History: the closure of Ballinaclashet National School · Scoil Naomh Fionán, Rennies
- Coastguard (Divisional Officers), House of Commons,7July1913,vol55,columns12–13 · UK Parliament, Hansard
- The greatest escape: Newbridge Barracks14/15October1922 · James Durney, Kildare Local Studies
- Oyster cultivation in Ballinaclashet Creek, near Ballinaclashet, County Cork illustration: based on a Oyster cultivation by John M. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.