placenamesLittleton
An Baile Beag
The Church of Ireland building at Bally Beg combines an eighteenth-century foundation with carefully carved Gothic details.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Baile Beag · Irish · main form · validated name
- Littleton · English · main form
Place & story
A tower above the nave
Saint Mary’s Church at Bally Beg was built in 1786. Its central entrance tower rises through three stages to a stone spire, while battlements and pinnacles extend the Gothic treatment across the building. The architectural survey records pointed windows with limestone surrounds, hood mouldings and timber tracery, together with stepped buttresses supporting the nave walls. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century tombs and memorials occupy the surrounding churchyard, enclosed by limestone walls and wrought-iron gates and railings. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Littleton. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint Mary’s Church (Twomileborris), Bally Beg, NIAH 22404802 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.