placenamesBallynakill
Baile na Cille
Two societies supported a small school within the coastal parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile na Cille · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballynakill · English · main form
Place & story
A society-supported classroom
At Tully in Ballynakill parish, Samuel Lewis recorded a school under the Tuam Diocesan and Dublin Ladies’ Irish Societies in 1837. It taught thirteen boys and seven girls. Three fee-paying schools, at Tully, Ballynakill and Rossroe, together taught about eighty children. The separate institutions show different forms of schooling across this Connemara parish, whose coastal communities also combined farming, occasional herring fishing, wool spinning and stocking knitting. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Ballynahinch
- Coordinates
- 53.57529, -9.94429
- Mapped area
- 199.56 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2789 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballynakill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballynakill, Ballynahinch, Galway: 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.