placenamesBallynagall
Samuel Lewis connected James Gibbons’s country house with the funding of local religious and educational buildings.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Ballynagall · English · main form
Place & story
A mansion in wooded grounds
Writing in 1837, Samuel Lewis identified Ballinagall as the seat of James Gibbons on the eastern side of Portnashangan parish. He described a recently built mansion in richly wooded grounds and gave its construction cost as £30,000. This account belongs to the house’s nineteenth-century setting, rather than describing its condition today. [2]
Contributions beyond the house
Lewis credited James Gibbons with providing the site and £1,892 towards the parish church erected in 1824. Sir Richard Levinge and the Board of First Fruits also contributed. He further recorded that Mr. Gibbons built the parish schoolhouse and endowed it with £700. These were institutions serving the wider parish; Lewis’s account links the Ballynagall landowner to their provision without placing every parish building within this townland. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballynagall. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Portshangan or Portneshangan, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837 · Samuel Lewis
- 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 2019-05-30. How this page was prepared.