placenamesBallycanew
Baile Uí Chonnmhaí
Lewis distinguished construction funds, annual support and a bequest charged on land elsewhere.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Uí Chonnmhaí · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballycanew · English · main form
Place & story
Schoolhouse and teacher
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Ballycanew parish in County Wexford records a parochial schoolhouse costing £80, including apartments for the master. Subscriptions and a grant from the lord-lieutenant’s fund met that expense. The rector contributed £5 annually towards the school, while the master also had an acre of ground rent-free. The rector supported another school in the parish, without a stated amount. [2]
An annual bequest
A benefactor named Mr. Windass left £3 a year, expressed in the former currency, for distribution among poor people. The payment was chargeable on the lands of Mangan in neighbouring Kiltrisk parish. Lewis thus located the source of this charitable income outside Ballycanew, rather than identifying Mangan as part of this parish. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballycanew. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballycannew, 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.