placenamesBallysheehan
Baile Uí Shíocháin
An 1837 account links this parish near Cashel with the Dublin–Cork route and a three-date fair calendar.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Uí Shíocháin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballysheehan · English · main form
Place & story
Roadside trade
Ballysheehan lay on the mail-coach road connecting Dublin with Cork by way of Cashel, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. He recorded fairs on 6 May, 15 August and 5 December, together with a stationed constabulary force. He also described about 150 acres of bog as a useful source of fuel, amid a parish chiefly devoted to arable farming and pasture. [2]
Schools and worship
Three pay schools together taught approximately 140 boys and ninety girls. Lewis reported that the parish had no Church of Ireland church, glebe-house or glebe at that time: worshippers attended services at Cashel and Ardmoyle instead. He separately placed its Catholic congregation within the Boherlahan district and described a modern chapel. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Coordinates
- 52.56146, -7.82251
- Mapped area
- 37.8 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2245 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballysheehan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballysheehan — 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.