placenamesWhitehall
An Baile Nua
Whitehall’s local history brings together a nineteenth-century school and an older devotional association with Saint Barry of Kilbarry.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Baile Nua · Irish · main form · validated name
- Whitehall · English · main form
Place & story
The church at Newtown
The 2005 county graveyard survey records a church at Whitehall from 1824, replaced by the present building in 1896. It places the churchyard in Newtown townland, within Termonbarry parish. [2]
From Corraun School to Whitehall
Whitehall National School was formerly called Corraun National School. Its own history dates the original building to 1892, when boys and girls occupied separate classrooms. Father Eugene White directed the building programme, which also included the parish church and parochial house. Major school renovations followed in 1965, with further extensions over the years, including one completed in 2017. [3]
A boat associated with the saint
William Grattan-Flood’s 1907 account of Saint Berach, also known as Barry, records an object identified as the saint’s boat beside Whitehall’s Catholic church. He attributed its recovery in 1890 to Dr M. F. Cox. The passage provides an early published record of the devotional association; it does not establish that the object was a vessel used by the saint. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Roscommon
- Barony
- Ballintober North
- Civil parish
- Termonbarry
- Within
- Ballygate
- Coordinates
- 53.76056, -7.92418 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 134172 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Whitehall. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- County Roscommon Graveyard Survey 2005: Whitehall Church · County Roscommon Heritage Forum, reproduced by Interment.net
- School History: Whitehall National School · Whitehall National School
- St Berach, The Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 2, 1907 · William Grattan-Flood
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.