placenamesBallyhuskard
Baile Huscaird
Lewis records the parish’s institutions shortly after its church was built.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Huscaird · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballyhuskard · English · main form
Place & story
A parish described in 1837
Samuel Lewis dated Ballyhuskard’s towered church to 1829. His 1837 account records a curate’s annual stipend of £75, distinct from the wider tithes, and twenty acres of glebe without a glebe house. A parochial school was still a proposal when he wrote. Five hedge schools were already teaching about 160 children between them, and a Sunday school also operated. The proposed school therefore belongs to a different stage from the institutions Lewis described as existing. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Coordinates
- 52.48389, -6.48854
- Mapped area
- 32.09 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2528 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyhuskard. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballyhuskard: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-11-11. How this page was prepared.