placenamesBallyellin
Baile Eilín
Lewis recorded a stone quarry and two separated portions of the Carlow parish in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Eilín · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballyellin · English · main form
Place & story
Stone for memorials and hearths
Samuel Lewis recorded a black-marble quarry in Ballyellin parish, supplying stone for tombstones and chimney-pieces. His 1837 entry described two detached portions of the parish separated by Slyguff, one containing five townlands and the other two. The quarry’s precise townland was not identified. Lewis also placed the old church ruins within a burial ground near the Borris–Goresbridge road and recorded castle ruins at Clowater. These were separate landmarks within the parish, without established construction dates in his account. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Carlow
- Barony
- Idrone East
- Barony
- Forth
- Barony
- Saint Mullin's Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.64511, -6.88463
- Mapped area
- 20.03 km²
- Logainm ID
- 317 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyellin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballyellin — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-07-01. How this page was prepared.