placenamesBallymodan
Baile Uí Bhuadáin
Lewis records a school beside Bandon’s quay and another supported by the parish vicar.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Uí Bhuadáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballymodan · English · main form
Place & story
Teaching rooms, homes and land
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Ballymodan account records a parochial schoolhouse on Cavendish Quay in Bandon, erected by the Duke of Devonshire with a residence for its master. At Curravarrahane, another parochial school received a master’s house and two acres of land from the vicar, who also supported the school. These were two separate provisions within the parish’s educational network. Lewis supplies no opening dates or individual building costs for them. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Kinalmeaky
- Barony
- Carbery East (E.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.73049, -8.75283
- Mapped area
- 32.85 km²
- Logainm ID
- 515 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballymodan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballymodan: 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.