placenamesBallincurrig
Baile an Churraigh
Ballincurrig’s school and creamery served an agricultural valley, while former mill cottages preserve a trace of its industrial past.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Churraigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballincurrig · English · main form
Place & story
A village serving the valley
Ballincurrig lies in the Owenacurra valley north of Lisgoold. Cork County Council’s 2005 local plan described a settlement serving the surrounding countryside through its school, public house and creamery. The creamery immediately north of the village drew on a wider farming area, making the small settlement a local service centre. [2]
The mill cottages
Writing in 2007, Tommy Barker described Ballincurrig’s earlier linen industry and the mill cottages beside its stream. Three workers’ cottages had been considered for restoration but were replaced when their condition proved too poor. Their stone was reused in landscaping around the replacement building. The account records a particular change in the village’s industrial fabric, rather than implying that the house standing there is a surviving mill conversion. [3]
Scoil Naomh Eoin
The local school traces its establishment to 1846. In 1968 it moved to the building that provided space for classrooms, a basketball court and hurling and football areas. The community gathered in September 2018 to celebrate fifty years at that site. Known as Scoil Naomh Eoin, the school belongs to Lisgoold parish and continues an educational tradition stretching back into the nineteenth century. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Civil parish
- Templebodan
- Within
- Templebodan
- Within
- Ballincurrig
- Coordinates
- 51.98992, -8.24750 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412700 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballincurrig. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Midleton Electoral Area Local Area Plan, September2005: Ballincurrig · Cork County Council
- No ordinary run of the mill,22 September2007 · Tommy Barker, Irish Examiner
- Scoil Naomh Eoin: school history · Ballincurrig National School
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.