placenamesBallyclogh
Baile Cloiche
Longueville’s estate buildings show successive architectural changes, while a nearby school commemorates a member of the Longfield family.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Cloiche · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballyclogh · English · main form
Place & story
An older house reshaped
Longueville House retains an early eighteenth-century core within a much larger composition. The architectural inventory dates the central block to about 1720 and records remodelling between 1800 and 1805, when wings and a Doric entrance portico were added. An iron conservatory followed in 1862. Its varied blocks and window arrangements therefore belong to several periods of investment, rather than a single original design. [2]
Richard Longfield remembered
The former Longueville School at Kilgobban bears the date 1890. A plaque dedicates it to Richard Longfield’s memory, linking the school with the neighbouring estate. Its T-shaped plan has gabled porches on two elevations. Cut limestone details, substantial chimneystacks and decorated entrance gates gave this small educational building an unusually elaborate finish. [3]
A change of ownership
The University of Galway’s estate record places Longueville House in Ballyclogh civil parish. It identifies Richard Longfield holding the property with a 312-acre demesne in the 1850s, and records the family’s sale of Longueville to Senator William O’Callaghan in 1938. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Coordinates
- 52.16757, -8.74738
- Mapped area
- 39.23 km²
- Logainm ID
- 507 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyclogh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Longueville House, NIAH20903222 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Longueville School, NIAH20903224 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Longueville House, Ballyclogh civil parish · University of Galway
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.