placenamesBallintemple
Baile an Teampaill
The East Cork electoral district takes in Ballycroneen, where school history, glacial deposits and a revolutionary witness account meet.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Teampaill · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballintemple · English · main form
Place & story
A school established in 1869
Ballycroneen National School dates its foundation to 1869. Its account of the present school describes three classrooms, a library and a multipurpose hall, with outdoor space for hurling and football. A sensory garden and vegetable garden add other uses to the grounds. The school provides a continuing educational presence in the rural coastal part of Ballintemple’s electoral district. [2]
A coast that helped define a glacial deposit
Ballycroneen Bay has a place in the study of Ireland’s glacial landscape. Roger Goodwillie’s 1986 scientific survey identified the low cliffs behind its beach as the type locality for Ballycroneen till: the place where this deposit was first described in detail. He linked the material to Irish Sea ice moving westwards along St George’s Channel, and rated the forty-two-hectare site as nationally important. [3]
An ambush that did not take place
John Kelleher’s Bureau of Military History statement recalls the East Cork flying column moving to Churchtown South in November 1920. Military lorries were expected to pass towards Ballycroneen’s coastguard station, then occupied by British Marines. The column waited in the district for several days, but the anticipated patrol did not arrive. His account records preparation and waiting rather than a completed attack at this location. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballintemple. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballycroneen National School: Our School · Ballycroneen National School
- Report on Areas of Scientific Interest in County Cork, March1986, Ballycroneen Bay, page28 · Roger Goodwillie / An Foras Forbartha
- Bureau of Military History witness statement1456, page20 · John Kelleher / Military Archives
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