placenamesBallinaboy
Baile na Baoi
Lewis recorded two milling sites and a reliance on a neighbouring bog in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile na Baoi · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballinaboy · English · main form
Place & story
Milling at Five-mile-bridge
Samuel Lewis recorded a flour mill at Five-mile-bridge belonging to Mr Herrick, and another in Ballinhassig village, in his 1837 account of Ballinaboy parish. He also described a new Cork–Kinsale road then being formed. The mills were existing businesses, while the road was still an improvement in progress. [2]
Fuel from Annagh bog
Lewis stated that Ballinaboy had no bog and obtained fuel from Annagh bog in an adjoining parish. His land description contrasts the cold, mountainous ground north of the river with the cultivated holdings elsewhere. The fuel source therefore lay beyond the parish whose farming and milling activities he was describing. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Barony
- Cork
- Barony
- Kerrycurrihy
- Coordinates
- 51.81787, -8.54262
- Mapped area
- 32.19 km²
- Logainm ID
- 504 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballinaboy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballinaboy — 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.