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Ballybeg

An Baile Beag

The wider Ballybeg neighbourhood grew around new homes, temporary classrooms and institutions built through local effort.

Recorded locationBallybeg52.23692° N · 7.14803° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

bailetownland, town, homesteadbeagsmall

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

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

  • An Baile Beag · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Ballybeg · English · main form

Place & story

The first classrooms

Hugh Fenning’s 1990 Dominican history records St Saviour’s parish beginning in May 1975, when sixty-six corporation houses were occupied in the Ballybeg estate. Children initially attended classes in Holy Ghost House, a former hospital across the Cork Road. A prefabricated school was brought from Killea in 1976. The permanent sixteen-classroom school was ready in October 1977 and formally opened the following June. [2]

Building parish institutions

St Saviour’s Church was dedicated on 13 December 1981. Edward Brady and Associates designed it with a steeply sloping roof and a high wall behind the sanctuary. A sports hall also dates from 1981. Fenning credits the Good Shepherd Sisters, present in Ballybeg from 1978, with initiating the parish centre opened in 1986 for childcare, medical consultations and community meetings. [2]

Skills shared through gardening

Pavee Point’s account of a 2017 visit records Ballybeg Greens operating as a community garden and social enterprise. It combined horticultural training and employment opportunities with growing produce for the food industry. Visiting gardeners compared that model with their own project, making Ballybeg a place where practical community experience could be exchanged. [3]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Waterford
Barony
Gaultiere
Civil parish
Kilbarry
Coordinates
52.23692, -7.14803
Mapped area
1.09 km²
Logainm ID
50511 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Ballybeg. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. The Waterford Dominicans1226–1990,pp48–54 · Hugh Fenning O.P., Dominican Community, Waterford,1990
  3. Visit to Waterford inspires our Garden Project,23November2017 · Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre
  4. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.