placenamesBallynaclogh
Baile na Cloiche
Ballynaclogh near Nenagh preserves an unusual nineteenth-century church, with estate and industrial records illuminating the surrounding parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile na Cloiche · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballynaclogh · English · main form
- Ballinaclough · English · main form · local name
Place & story
The church of 1815
Ballynaclogh's Church of Ireland church was built in 1815 with support from the Board of First Fruits. Its octagonal nave is particularly unusual, paired with a three-stage western tower carrying battlements and pinnacles. The architectural inventory records cast-iron lattice windows and carefully dressed limestone details. The ruins of an earlier church remain on the same site, so the graveyard contains evidence of successive buildings serving the parish. [2]
The Bayly family’s local estates
The Baylys established themselves at nearby Debsborough in the early eighteenth century through fee-farm grants from the Duke of Ormonde. Successive men named John Bayly lived there, while Richard Uniacke Bayly was associated with Ballynaclogh as well as Ballyre in Cork. The University of Galway's estate survey places their local property within a larger network of holdings, distinguishing the different family branches and houses rather than treating them as one residence. [3]
Marble, milling and parish schools
Samuel Lewis's 1837 account describes a largely agricultural parish with a small corn mill and a recently reopened marble quarry on the Debsborough and Ballynaclogh demesnes. The marble occurred in red and grey varieties. He also recorded a parish school supported by the dean and John Bayly, alongside two fee-paying schools. His description shows estate patronage, mineral working and education operating within the same rural economy. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Upper
- Civil parish
- Ballynaclogh
- Coordinates
- 52.82595, -8.13353 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414496 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballynaclogh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballynaclogh Church,registration22402701 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Bayly(Debsborough),estate2994 · University of Galway,Landed Estates Database
- Ballynaclough: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland,1837 · Samuel Lewis; historical text transcribed by Library Ireland
- Surviving Ballynaclogh castle wall remains illustration: based on a Castles of Munster: Ballynaclough, Tipperary (1) by Mike Searle. 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 2012-02-09. How this page was prepared.