placenamesBallyphilip
Baile Philib
Lewis recorded Andrew Nugent’s support for education at Portaferry and a separate bequest charged on Castle Ward.
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 Philib · Irish · main form
- Ballyphilip · English · main form
Place & story
A schoolhouse and annual support
Andrew Nugent built the parochial schoolhouse at Portaferry and contributed thirty pounds annually in the older Irish currency towards the school, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Ballyphilip. The rector added a smaller contribution. The school taught seventy boys and seventy girls; Lewis separately counted around 120 pupils across seven pay schools in the parish. [2]
A bequest for poor people
Lewis also recorded a three-pound annual bequest for poor people, charged on the Castle Ward estate. He attributed it to a member of the Bangor family without identifying the donor. The bequest connected that estate with a charitable payment recorded in the parish account. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Ards Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.38269, -5.55235 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 20.67 km²
- Logainm ID
- 65688 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyphilip. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballyphilip — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.