placenamesStonewall
Balla na gCloch
Stonewall’s documented community life includes evangelical meetings and workspace provided for local businesses near Bailieborough.
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
- Balla na gCloch · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Stonewall · English · main form
Place & story
A remembered mission in 1940
A letter by William Fleming, reproduced in the Irish Evangelistic Band’s eightieth-anniversary magazine, recalls Bob Graham and Edmund Sandford conducting a mission in a hall at Stonewall in March 1940. Fleming describes this as the occasion of his own religious conversion. His personal recollection supplies a dated account of evangelical activity here, without establishing that the hall used then was the present building. [2]
Stonewall Gospel Hall
Stonewall Gospel Hall describes itself as an independent meeting place for Christians, with no denominational affiliation. Its website gives an establishment date of 1890 and describes meetings centred on preaching, Bible reading and study. That date is the congregation’s own account of its origins; it does not by itself date the surviving building. [3]
Workspace on the Virginia Road
In a 2015 interview, Bailieborough Development Association chairman Peadar Reynolds described the association’s enterprise centre at Stonewall, beside the Virginia Road. Its workspace units accommodated small and medium businesses employing fifteen people at that time. The centre formed part of the association’s wider programme of community facilities and local employment. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Civil parish
- Killinkere
- Within
- Carnagarve
- Within
- Carnalynch
- Within
- Drutamy
- Within
- Togher
- Coordinates
- 53.89293, -7.01347
- Logainm ID
- 1166973 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Stonewall. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Praise and Prayer, Winter2016 eightieth-anniversary issue, page2: letter from William Fleming · Irish Evangelistic Band; personal recollection by William Fleming
- Stonewall Gospel Hall: About Us and establishment heading · Stonewall Gospel Hall
- Looking Forward to the future / For the betterment of Bailieborough,16April2015 · Sean McMahon and Linda O’Reilly; interview with Peadar Reynolds, reproduced by Bailieborough Development Association
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-07-20. How this page was prepared.