placenamesBallymore
An Baile Mór
Ballymore and adjoining Walterstown share a school tradition on Great Island, while Templerobin preserves the memory of an influential teacher.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Baile Mór · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballymore · English · main form
Place & story
Ballymore and Walterstown
Ballymore is part of the linked settlement of Ballymore and Walterstown on Great Island. Cork County Council’s 2005 local plan identified the school, public house and Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church as its community facilities, and recorded the church as a protected structure. The plan placed the settlement within the metropolitan green belt, giving agriculture, open space and recreation a particular role in the surrounding landscape. [2]
The school built with Belvelly brick
Walterstown National School opened on 9 June 1884 with 160 pupils. Its own history records that the original building used brick from Belvelly, with Denis O’Mahony as principal and Miss Bride as assistant teacher. Children brought wood for the open fire. A replacement school opened in 2002 on the former playing field, using brick chosen to complement the older building. The original school found a new purpose as the Ballymore Community Association’s community centre. [3]
Michael Harrington at Templerobin
Templerobin churchyard at Ballymore contains the tomb of Michael Harrington, a Jesuit priest and teacher who died in 1810. The Irish Jesuit Archives records his work at Reddington Academy in nearby Ballybrassil after the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773. His former pupils erected the monument in gratitude for his teaching. The tomb connects the churchyard with an earlier educational community on Great Island. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Civil parish
- Templerobin
- Within
- Cobh Rural
- Within
- Ballymore
- Coordinates
- 51.86405, -8.26133 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412745 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballymore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Midleton Electoral Area Local Area Plan, September 2005: Ballymore / Walterstown · Cork County Council
- A History of Our School · Walterstown National School
- Fr Michael Harrington SJ, IE IJA J/2330 · Irish Jesuit Archives
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.