placenamesBallyclog
Baile an Chloig
Lewis recorded several distinct arrangements for financing education across the Tyrone parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Chloig · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballyclog · English · main form
Place & story
A network of supported schools
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Ballyclog records a school under the trustees of Erasmus Smith’s Charity. Three others, at Upper Back, Eirey and Ochill as he spelled the names, received annual donations from the Countess of Castlesteuart. Mrs. Caulfield supported a further school at Drumkirn. Together these schools taught about 230 boys and 200 girls. A separate private school at Drumbanaway had about thirty pupils. The account distinguishes a charitable foundation, local patronage and private teaching within the parish. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.61529, -6.62222 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 63170 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyclog. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballyclog — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2009-01-27. How this page was prepared.