placenamesBallyoughtera
An Baile Uachtarach
Lewis distinguished a ruined parish church from the church serving the town in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Baile Uachtarach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballyoughtera · English · main form
Place & story
Ruins near the estate boundary
Samuel Lewis placed Ballyoughtera’s old parish church near the south-eastern boundary of Castlemartyr’s demesne. His 1837 account dated its construction to 1549 and its destruction to the war of 1641. He described ruins, rather than a building still used for worship, and did not identify their surviving architectural details. [2]
A church in town and a house elsewhere
Lewis separately recorded the functioning church in Castlemartyr town, surrounded by elm trees. The united living also included Cahirultan and Imogeely. Its glebe house stood at Imogeely and had received a £100 gift and a £1,350 loan from the Board of First Fruits in 1815. That house should therefore be distinguished from the ruined church within the demesne. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyoughtera. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballyoughtera — 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.