placenamesBallytruckle
Baile Throcail
Ballytruckle’s educational buildings record the growth of the Ursuline community and successive changes in girls’ schooling on Waterford’s southern outskirts.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Throcail · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballytruckle · English · main form
Place & story
Teaching in the coach house
The Ursuline community settled at Elysium after earlier homes at Waterpark and Newgrove. Its school history recalls thirty boarders arriving with the sisters and a large coach house in the garden being used to teach poor children locally. In 1842 a purpose-built Saint John's National School replaced that improvised classroom. The account shows how boarding education and schooling for children from the surrounding district developed alongside one another. [2]
The nineteenth-century school buildings
The architectural inventory dates the substantial fifteen-bay school building at Saint Angela's to about 1875. Its symmetrical frontage has a projecting central section crowned by a pediment and cross, with a round-headed entrance and a fanlight. The garden survey records older boundary walls, mature trees and the sisters' graveyard with cast-iron crosses. Together these features preserve the setting of a large educational institution that grew through successive additions. [3] [4]
Saint Angela’s and the free education scheme
Saint Anne's Secondary Day School, established in 1892, merged with the boarding school under the free education scheme in 1967. The combined institution became Saint Angela's Post Primary School. A new building opened in 1981 under the name Brescia, recalling the Italian city where Angela Merici founded the Ursulines. These developments changed both the organisation of education and the physical scale of the Ballytruckle campus. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Gaultiere
- Civil parish
- Saint John's Without
- Coordinates
- 52.24756, -7.12141 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414598 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballytruckle. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- History of Saint Angela’s · Saint Angela’s School,Waterford
- Saint Angela’s Ursuline Convent school,registration22830320 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Saint Angela’s Ursuline Convent garden survey,WA0542 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-02-16. How this page was prepared.