placenamesBallyneety
Baile an Fhaoitigh
Ballyneety developed within the farming district of Cahernarry, southeast of Limerick. A former church and a modern community sporting project show different ways in which local buildings and land have acquired new purposes.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Fhaoitigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballyneety · English · main form
Place & story
A village within Limerick’s farming hinterland
Samuel Lewis recorded a constabulary station at Ballyneety, written Ballyneedy in his 1837 account of Cahernarry. The surrounding parish supplied milk daily to Limerick from its meadow and pasture land. Limestone was quarried for agricultural use, and a recently opened road avoided the hill on the route towards Charleville. These details place the village within the everyday economy of the nearby city, linked through produce, road travel and the working of local materials. [2]
Cahernarry Church in Ballyneety
The former Church of Ireland church in Ballyneety dates to 1862. Its Gothic design includes limestone walls, narrow lancet windows and an elaborate open bellcote. Trefoil details crown the roof copings, while carved gate piers and iron railings contribute to the setting. By the architectural survey of 2007 it was being converted to a house. The surviving masonry and decorative features preserve the building’s earlier purpose through that change of use. [3]
A golf course and a community project
Ballyneety’s golf course opened in 1994 to a design by Des Smyth and Declan Branigan. After financial difficulties and closure, local meetings in 2012 helped develop a project to bring it back into use, a process described in the applicant’s submissions recorded by a 2016 planning inspector. The club’s own account now identifies community facilities on the grounds, including meeting space, a walking track and a Men’s Shed. The site’s development therefore extends beyond the playing of golf into shared local activities. [4] [5]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Civil parish
- Cahernarry
- Coordinates
- 52.60009, -8.54613 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414027 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyneety. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cahirnarry: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Cahernarry Church, Ballyneety, NIAH 21901407 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Ballyneety Golf Club: history and community facilities · Ballyneety Golf Club
- Ballyneety Golf Club community facilities: inspector’s report PL91.245719, 2016 · Robert Speer / An Bord Pleanála
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2017-12-01. How this page was prepared.