placenamesBartlemy
Tobar Pártnáin
Bartlemy’s church, school and parish hall preserve different aspects of village life, from the arrival of travelling theatrical families to local efforts to sustain a shared community building.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tobar Pártnáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Bartlemy · English · main form
Place & story
A hall sustained by community effort
Bartlemy’s parish hall was built in 1961 with voluntary labour, but its construction still left a debt. John Arnold recalls carnivals held from the mid-1960s to raise money, with dancing and games around the village cross. In 2024, after falling activity threatened the hall’s future, residents organised a harvest festival. Arnold’s firsthand account describes bingo, a history walk, music and a family day bringing people together around the building again. [2]
Saint Bartholomew’s Church
Saint Bartholomew’s Catholic Church at Garryantaggart dates from about 1820. Its T-shaped layout combines the nave with projecting transepts and lower entrance porches. A limestone bellcote rises above the front gable, with an open bell chamber and a carved cross. The architectural survey also records stone cross finials on the roof. The building’s relatively simple rendered exterior is therefore punctuated by carefully worked stone details that mark its religious use. [3]
A school for local and travelling families
The school at Hightown opened in 1904 and served Bartlemy until 1986. Writing from his own memories and copies of the admission registers, John Arnold described a less expected part of its history: children of travelling performers attended while their families staged shows locally. The 1917 intake included children whose fathers were recorded as showmen. Arnold also remembered later pupils from an acting family, and recalled theatrical performances in the parish hall. The registers thus preserve traces of movement as well as settled village life. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Civil parish
- Gortroe
- Within
- Gortroe
- Within
- Ballynakilla
- Within
- Baneena South
- Within
- Hollyhill
- Within
- Lackabeha East
- Coordinates
- 52.05281, -8.26243 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 129447 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Bartlemy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cork community revive harvest festival in bid to keep parish hall open, 3 October 2024 · John Arnold, The Echo
- Saint Bartholomew’s Church, registration 20904420 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Back to school... and a history lesson on my local alma mater, 11 September 2017 · John Arnold / The Echo
- Saint Bartholomew's Holy Well, near Bartlemy illustration: based on a St. Bartholomew's Holy Well by Hywel Williams. 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.