placenamesBallyscullion
Baile Uí Scoillín
Lewis records annual educational donations and distributions of clothing associated with the Bellaghy estate.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Uí Scoillín · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballyscullion · English · main form
Place & story
A schoolhouse and annual assistance
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Ballyscullion account credits the Bellaghy estate’s proprietors with building a parochial schoolhouse. They and the rector gave annual donations to support teaching for boys and girls. The same account records the proprietors distributing blankets and clothing to the poor each year. These were separate forms of assistance: premises for education, recurring school support and goods supplied for household use. Lewis does not state the sums spent on the clothing distributions. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Derry
- Barony
- Loughinsholin
- Coordinates
- 54.81496, -6.53763 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 2900 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyscullion. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballyscullion, a parish: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2017-01-06. How this page was prepared.