placenamesBallyhay
Bealach Átha
Lewis described market-oriented grazing alongside tillage and local lime supplies.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Bealach Átha · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballyhay · English · main form
Place & story
Grazing within a cultivated parish
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Ballyhay, written as Ballyhea, records large farms chiefly under tillage, with good grazing land used to fatten store cattle for the Cork market. The parish lay on the Awbeg and the Cork–Limerick mail-coach road. He also recorded abundant limestone gravel burned for use as manure. These details link farming with an identified market and a local soil treatment, without giving cattle numbers or lime production totals. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Coordinates
- 52.34393, -8.68028
- Mapped area
- 19.47 km²
- Logainm ID
- 512 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyhay. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballyhea: 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.