placenamesBallycommon
Baile Uí Chomáin
Carrig Church, the adjoining school and Monsea’s community hall trace different stages in the history of the Ballycommon district near Nenagh.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Uí Chomáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballycommon · English · main form
Place & story
Saint Mary’s on Carrig Hill
Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, also known as Carrig Church, bears the date 1833. Designed by John Hanley, it has a simple cruciform plan, with pointed windows and doors giving the exterior its Gothic character. The altar end is more elaborate: paired Corinthian columns and pilasters support a carved timber pediment above a marble altar and tabernacle. The church forms a group with the nearby school and parochial house on Carrig Hill. [2]
A schoolhouse adapted for successive generations
Carrig National School was built in 1914 and opened the following year as a mixed school with two teachers. A third classroom arrived in 1963, alongside toilets, a cloakroom, a water tower and an outdoor shelter. Further extensions followed in 1981 and 1983. A larger programme completed in 2017 combined new classrooms with refurbishment of the original schoolhouse and improved play areas, continuing the use of the early twentieth-century building within a substantially expanded school. [3]
Monsea Muintir na Tíre Hall
Monsea Muintir na Tíre Hall provided Ballycommon and surrounding communities with a village meeting place from 1963. Photographer P. L. Chadwick documented it beside the R495 in September 2011, recording that it had been altered and extended. The hall adds a secular community building to a district whose church and school had already served successive generations. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Civil parish
- Monsea
- Coordinates
- 52.89773, -8.20806 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414491 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballycommon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, architectural inventory 22401439 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- School History · Carrig National School
- Monsea Muintir Na Tire Hall, Ballycommon, 18 September 2011 · P L Chadwick, Geograph Ireland
- Monsea Muintir na Tire Hall, Ballycommon, County Tipperary illustration: based on a Monsea Muintir Na Tire Hall, Ballycommon, Co. Tipperary by P L Chadwick. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-02-13. How this page was prepared.