placenamesBallyhack
Baile Hac
The coastguard station at Kilhile combines a long two-storey frontage with a projecting porch and gabled end bay.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Baile Hac · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballyhack · English · main form
Place & story
An estuary service building
Arthurstown Coastguard Station, in Kilhile townland, was built in 1898. The architectural inventory describes an eleven-bay, two-storey building on an L-shaped plan, with an advanced end bay and a single-storey gabled porch. Slate roofs, brick chimney stacks and surviving cast-iron rainwater fittings form part of its recorded fabric. The station was occupied in 1911 but disused by 1922. Its later history included hostel use; the inventory records closure in 2004. These dates trace changing uses of a substantial coastal service building. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyhack. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Arthurstown Coastguard Station, Kilhile, NIAH 15616002 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.