placenamesBallypatrick
Baile Phádraig
Ballypatrick’s chapel, former creamery and John Quinn’s photographs preserve different aspects of community life beneath Slievenamon.
The name
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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 Phádraig · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballypatrick · English · main form
Place & story
John Quinn’s photographs
Local photographer John Quinn recorded Ballypatrick and the neighbouring villages of Kilcash and Kilsheelan during the early twentieth century. His images captured work and everyday life around the school, church, creamery, post office and Gibbs forge. Tipperary Studies later used this collection for a documentary about the community in the 1920s. The photographs preserve familiar buildings and routines while occasionally revealing the disruption of war and revolution, including damage to Kilsheelan bridge. [2]
The cooperative creamery
The former Ballypatrick Co-operative Dairy Society building dates from 1893. Its long, single-storey frontage, with accommodation in the attic, retains a slate roof edged with limestone coping. The architectural inventory records metal-clad roof vents and a later central porch. As one of the workplaces appearing in the village’s photographic history, the creamery links the surviving built environment with the daily movement of milk and farm produce through the community. [3] [2]
A chapel serving the district
Ballypatrick already had a Catholic chapel when Samuel Lewis described Kilcash parish in 1837. It belonged to the ecclesiastical district known as Gammonsfield or Kilcash. Lewis also recorded a public school serving about 170 children in the wider parish, with its schoolhouse supplied by the Marquess of Ormonde. His account places worship and education within the district’s nineteenth-century life, well before Quinn photographed the later village community. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa East
- Civil parish
- Temple-etney
- Coordinates
- 52.39376, -7.54457 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414501 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballypatrick. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- I hope all my friends come out safe: Ballypatrick, an Irish rural community in the 1920s · Tipperary Studies, County Tipperary Heritage Office
- Ballypatrick Co-operative Dairy Society, inventory 22207808, creamery search results · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kilcash, Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account · Samuel Lewis; A Vision of Britain through Time
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2017-12-01. How this page was prepared.