placenamesBallynaslaney
Baile na Sláine
Lewis linked the parish to navigation plans and the reuse of an older church’s stonework.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile na Sláine · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballynaslaney · English · main form
Place & story
A canal planned from Pooldarragh
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Ballynaslaney parish in County Wexford identifies Pooldarragh as the point reached by larger vessels on the Slaney. A proposed canal to Enniscorthy was to begin there and extend six and a half British miles. The account describes a contemplated route, rather than a canal already completed or open to traffic. [2]
A doorway beyond the vanished church
Lewis reported that even the ruins of Ballynaslaney’s church had been removed. Its Norman doorway had been taken elsewhere and inserted into Kilpatrick church at Saunderscourt. The destination was a separate church, not a surviving portion of the original building at Ballynaslaney. Lewis did not give the date of that transfer or name the people who carried it out. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen South
- Barony
- Shelmaliere East
- Coordinates
- 52.41763, -6.52532
- Mapped area
- 13.34 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2531 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballynaslaney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballynaslaney: 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.