placenamesBallywillin
Baile an Mhuilinn
An 1835 survey records how the school was funded and what its pupils supplied.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Baile an Mhuilinn · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballywillin · English · main form
Place & story
Money, fuel and thirty-five pupils
Ballywillan school stood on Magherabuoy Road near the old church in County Antrim. John Moore’s history reproduces J. Bleakly’s survey of 26 October 1835, which dated its establishment to 1829. The slated schoolhouse had cost £70: £15 came from the parish and £55 from the Rev. William Mill. Children supplied fuel. The return counted fifteen boys and twenty girls, all Presbyterians, while identifying their master, James Greer, as belonging to the Established Church. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Dunluce Lower
- Coordinates
- 55.19960, -6.64924 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 61300 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballywillin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballywillan National School, Heritage Newsletter 80 (June 2022) · John Moore / Portrush Heritage Group
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.