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 Uí Cheog· Irish · main form · validated name
Ballyhoge· English · main form
Ballyhogue· English · main form · local name
Place & story
Bellevue chapel
Bellevue chapel was built for Anthony John Cliffe between 1858 and 1860. Blue limestone walls and pale granite dressings give the small Gothic building a distinctive contrast of materials. Its interior includes a timber roof, decorative stencilling, a marble altar and an elaborate east window. When Bellevue house burned in 1923, the connection between house and chapel was cut to help protect the chapel. It was restored for occasional worship in 1965.[2]
The school in the church
Ballyhogue National School, now Scoil Mhuire, was founded in 1928 and used the local church until 1952. Its first separate school building had one classroom; another was added in 1967. Further accommodation followed in 2004 and 2006, while work in 2011 replaced the roof and added learning-support and staff rooms. The school’s history therefore traces a gradual move from shared religious space to a purpose-built and repeatedly adapted place of learning.[3]
The estate boundary wall
A long brick wall separates the former Bellevue and Brookhill estates. Wexford County Council’s assessment dates its construction to about 1845–50 as a Famine relief project. Roughly a kilometre survives between the estates, with an isolated northern section near the former twin gate lodges. Earlier stone boundary work remains at the southern end. The wall preserves a physical reminder of employment provided during the Famine, as well as the boundaries of the two properties.[4]
Folklore & tradition
The wall built twice
Local historian Peter Doyle recorded a story about the wall in Memories and Musings: Ballyhogue Long Ago, published in 2001. As quoted in the council’s assessment, workers nearing the end feared that their employment would disappear. Once the wall was finished, they were supposedly told to take it down carefully and rebuild it, extending the work. The account explains the local name the wall that was built twice; it is presented as folklore, rather than a verified construction record.[4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
View population figures
Ballyhogue — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Ballyhogue, Wexford
Published census settlement populations
269people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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