placenamesBallykine
Lewis preserves a 1604 inquiry’s account of earlier ecclesiastical property and its transfer to Dublin’s civic authorities.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Ballykine · English · main form
Place & story
An inquiry into earlier ownership
Samuel Lewis cited an inquisition taken in 1604 that described Ballykine as a rectory. Along with Rathdrum and Moycreddin, it had belonged to the monastery of All Saints. The inquiry recorded an earlier grant of those rectories to Dublin’s mayor, bailiffs and commons at an annual rent of £4. The inquiry date and the earlier grant are separate stages in the account. [2]
The district described in 1837
Lewis called Ballykine a constablewick within Rathdrum parish. For ecclesiastical purposes, it joined Ballinacor constablewick in the newer district parish of Ballinaclash, whose curate was under the patronage of Rathdrum’s rector. His description distinguishes the local territorial division from the arrangements for serving its church community. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Coordinates
- 52.87810, -6.30000
- Mapped area
- 43.47 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2670 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballykine. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballykine: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.