placenamesBallymacwilliam
Baile Mhic Liam
Lewis credited Lord Trimlestown with providing both the building and a land endowment.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Mhic Liam · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballymacwilliam · English · main form
Place & story
The school recorded in 1837
Lord Trimlestown built Ballymacwilliam’s schoolhouse and endowed it with an acre of land, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. About eighty boys and thirty girls were taught there. The notice records a specific educational provision in this farming parish north of Edenderry, without supplying the school’s opening date or a construction cost. Elsewhere in the same account, the parish church was ruinous and Protestant inhabitants travelled to Ballyburley and Monasteroris for worship. Lewis does not identify the school as occupying that ruined church. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Offaly
- Barony
- Warrenstown
- Coordinates
- 53.35086, -7.14546
- Mapped area
- 20.15 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2006 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballymacwilliam. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballymacwilliam, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.