placenamesBallingarry
Baile an Gharraí
Archaeological traces and church records distinguish the parish’s older centre from its mining village.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Gharraí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballingarry · English · main form
Place & story
The settlement before the mining village
An older Ballingarry stood west of the modern village, beside the road through the Slieveardagh hills. Richard Clutterbuck’s archaeological survey connects it with the Fanning family: a seventeenth-century account recorded a castle, thatched house, cabins and a mill. The mill’s precise site remained unidentified. [2]
A church surviving in records
Medieval taxation records mention Ballingarry church in 1302–07. Clutterbuck found no standing medieval walls in the graveyard. A raised area might conceal church remains, but he could not date it. His survey distinguishes this uncertain physical evidence from the documented existence of the parish church. [2]
Funding a tower and glebe house
Samuel Lewis recorded a later Church of Ireland building with a tower, erected in 1811 with a £470 grant from the Board of First Fruits. The same body supported a glebe house in 1814, contributing a £350 gift and a £450 loan. The clergyman’s glebe comprised seventeen and a half acres held subject to rent. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Slievardagh
- Coordinates
- 52.60107, -7.52681
- Mapped area
- 56.26 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2240 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballingarry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- The Settlement and Architecture of Later Medieval Slieveardagh: Ballingarry · Richard Clutterbuck, University College Dublin thesis, August 1998; reproduced by Slieveardagh Rural Development
- Ballingarry or Gare: 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.