placenamesBallydeloher
Baile Dúlóthair
An 1829 building replaced worship at Ballyvinny in Lewis’s account.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Dúlóthair · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballydeloher · English · main form
Place & story
A church built and another proposed
A new church was built in Ballydeloher parish in 1829, with £625 granted towards it by the Board of First Fruits, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. The union had previously used a church at Ballyvinny, which Lewis described as falling into decay after the replacement was erected. He also mentioned a proposed church or chapel near Watergrasshill; that proposal was separate from the completed 1829 building. At Riverstown, about half a mile from the church, the parochial school depended chiefly on local subscriptions. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballydeloher. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballydeloher or Ballyloohera: 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.