placenamesButtevant
Cill na Mallach
The Ballybeg shrine’s parish history records local labour, a donated site and the reuse of an old lime-kiln recess.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill na Mallach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Buttevant · English · main form
Place & story
A community building project
Buttevant’s parish history dates the Ballybeg grotto to 1951 or 1952, preserving uncertainty about the year. Workers from the nearby limestone quarry built it with local farmers and other helpers. Eddie McCarthy donated the site, a recess formerly used as a lime kiln, and William Hutch served as architect and engineer. The project gave a former working space a new devotional use, with an Italian Carrara-marble statue of Our Lady. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Coordinates
- 52.22289, -8.70199
- Mapped area
- 47.33 km²
- Logainm ID
- 707 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Buttevant. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- History: Marian Grotto, Ballybeg · Buttevant Parish
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.