placenamesBallycahane
Baile Uí Chatháin
The Ordnance Survey account distinguishes spelling, writing and arithmetic charges.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Baile Uí Chatháin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballycahane · English · main form
Place & story
A fee-paying school in Ballycahane Middle
The Ordnance Survey name books recorded a school in Ballycahane Middle that had been established in 1810. It taught forty boys and twenty girls, all described as Roman Catholic. Pupils paid the teacher, with quarterly charges rising according to the subject: one shilling and eightpence for spelling, two shillings for reading and writing, and two shillings and sixpence for arithmetic. This account identifies both the school’s local setting and the differing costs of instruction without naming its teacher. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Pubblebrien
- Barony
- Smallcounty
- Coordinates
- 52.55653, -8.64795
- Mapped area
- 9.84 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1507 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballycahane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballycahane: Ordnance Survey Name Books, entry 4, PDF page 4 · Ordnance Survey; digitised by Limerick Local Studies
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.