placenamesBallynahinch
Baile na hInse
Road excavations near Ballynahinch revealed a long-used prehistoric landscape, while the national school records a more recent history of changing buildings and catchments.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile na hInse · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballynahinch · English · main form
Place & story
Round houses under the road
Excavations for the Nenagh–Limerick road in 2006–07 investigated seven areas between Birdhill and Ballynahinch. At least five round houses were identified on a hillside. One produced prehistoric pottery; the excavator considered the other structures likely to be of similar date. The largest had a ring gully surrounding an interior about 9.4 metres across, with post-holes probably marking roof supports and hundreds of smaller stake-holes whose arrangement was difficult to interpret. [2]
Burials and burnt stone
Lower ground contained a small cemetery with seven cremation burials, badly damaged by later disturbance. Elsewhere, excavators found burnt-stone mounds and troughs beside the stream, described as fulachta fiadh. The work also revealed an undated enclosure, a droveway and later field boundaries. These discoveries record several phases of activity in the surrounding landscape, rather than evidence for a single settlement continuing unchanged into the modern village. [2]
A school and community hall
Ballinahinch National School dates its opening to 1906. In 1942 it moved into a new building, while the earlier school became the community hall. When Killoscully’s school closed in 1968, its pupils transferred to Ballinahinch. The old building served education again during classroom construction in 1996, when the school temporarily relocated there. A further classroom followed in 2017, adding another stage to the development of the present school. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Civil parish
- Kilcomenty
- Coordinates
- 52.77147, -8.38527 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414498 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballynahinch. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- 2007:1587, Ballynahinch, licenceE002552 · Kate Taylor, TVAS Ireland; Excavations.ie
- History of Ballinahinch National School · Ballinahinch National School
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-02-13. How this page was prepared.