placenamesBallingarry
Baile an Gharraí
Country-house building and nineteenth-century milling form part of the rural history of Ballingarry in Upper Connello.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Gharraí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballingarry · English · main form
Place & story
Glenwilliam’s changing appearance
Glenwilliam Castle began as a house built for the Reverend William H. Massy in the late 1790s. Curved bows project from the centres of its front and rear elevations. Additions in the 1830s introduced a castellated block and a stable complex with a clock tower, bellcote and cobbled courtyard. The architectural inventory suggests the Pain brothers as possible designers of those additions. Mary Anne Massy occupied the house at Griffith’s Valuation; the Atkinsons lived there later in the nineteenth century. [2] [3]
Flour production outside the town
Lewis’s 1837 account places two flour mills within the parish’s economy: Fort-William, owned by Mrs Graves, near the town, and Kilmore, belonging to John Tuthill, three miles to the east. Beside Kilmore House stood a bridge built by Tuthill’s grandfather. These references connect the parish’s houses and roads with grain processing, alongside the pasture and arable farming described in the same contemporary account. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Coordinates
- 52.46821, -8.80392
- Mapped area
- 71.34 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1605 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballingarry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Glenwilliam Castle, NIAH21903719 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Glenwilliam, property2495 · University of Galway Landed Estates Database
- Ballingarry, Upper Connello, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland1837 · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.