placenamesBallynakill
Baile na Cille
Lewis’s 1837 account distinguishes the civil parish from the Catholic districts serving it.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile na Cille · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballynakill · English · main form
Place & story
Woodford’s new chapel in a wider network
Most of Ballynakill civil parish was divided between the Catholic benefices of Ballynakill and Woodford, with the remainder belonging to part of a third, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. He listed chapels at Cloncoe, Loughtorick, Marble Hill, Knockadrian and Woodford. The Woodford chapel had been erected that year for £400. The account describes several centres of worship across the parish, whose civil boundary did not define a single Catholic district. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballynakill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballynakill, Leitrim, Galway: 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.