placenamesBallynure
Baile an Iúir
An 1837 parish account records a collector’s galleries and the building of the local church.
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
- Baile an Iúir · Irish · main form
- Ballynure · English · main form
Place & story
Rooms for a collection
Samuel Lewis reported that H. Harrington had built two large galleries at Grange-Con to accommodate paintings and curiosities. Writing in 1837, he described Harrington as a recent resident and an active collector. This records a purpose-built setting for collecting within Ballynure parish, without identifying the surviving objects or establishing the galleries’ later history. [2]
A grant towards the church
Lewis dated Ballynure’s church to 1814 and recorded an £800 gift from the Board of First Fruits towards its construction. He described a square tower crowned with pinnacles. The sum was a grant, rather than a stated total building cost. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Coordinates
- 52.98965, -6.74193
- Mapped area
- 30.04 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2671 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballynure. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballynure, Upper Talbotstown: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-10-24. How this page was prepared.