placenamesBallymaglassan
Baile Mhac Glasáin
Lewis recorded an 1800 church supported by a Board of First Fruits gift.
Recorded locationBallymaglassan53.44337° N · 6.55238° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Baile Mhac Glasáin · Irish · main form
- Ballymaglassan · English · main form
Place & story
An early nineteenth-century church
Samuel Lewis placed Ballymaglassan on the Dublin–Summerhill road in 1837, but described its parish church as standing well away from that highway. The church had been built in 1800 with help from a £600 gift from the Board of First Fruits. His account also records Ballymaglasson House as an occasional residence of W. Murphy, retaining the distinction between a house used periodically and a permanent family home. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballymaglassan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballymaglasson, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-05-12. How this page was prepared.