placenamesBallyvoy
Baile Bhóidh
Ballyvoy’s community history includes an endowed school, a long tradition of hurling and educational partnerships across religious divisions.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Bhóidh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballyvoy · English · main form
Place & story
An estate school open across creeds
Edmund McGildowney’s will of 1832 left £200 to support a schoolmaster at Ballyvoy. The teaching was to cover reading, writing and arithmetic without distinctions of religious creed. The resulting annuity continued through later generations of the family. Correspondence about the school’s proposed closure in 1934 raised questions about ownership of the building and the endowment’s status after the estate had been sold. Carey Historical Society recovered this history from the legal papers. [2]
Carey Faughs and their first trophy
Carey Faughs, based in Ballyvoy, were founded in 1903 by Dennis Maguire and Patrick Moore with the assistance of Father Eardly. Their first full season brought victory over Glenarm in the Glens Feis final and possession of the Shield of the Heroes, which appears on the club crest. In 1906 Carey became the first North Antrim team to win the county hurling championship. Further county titles followed in 1916 and 1923. [3] [4]
Barnish’s shared classrooms
Barnish Primary School in Ballyvoy developed a partnership with Straidbilly lasting more than twenty years. Staff planned lessons together, shared resources and appointed a shared teacher. Pupils took part in joint work in physical education, literacy and personal development. Straidbilly’s account recalls children learning and playing alongside their Barnish friends. Barnish closed in 2021, after which Straidbilly formed a new shared-education partnership with other schools. [5]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Cary
- Civil parish
- Culfeightrin
- Coordinates
- 55.19370, -6.19397 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 61855 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyvoy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Placenames and Fieldnames of Culfeightrin, Ballyvoy National School, page 158 · Carey Historical Society, supported by Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council Museum Services
- History: Carey Faughs · Carey Faughs GAC
- Who We Are · Carey Faughs GAC
- Shared Education · Straidbilly Primary School
- St Patrick's Church, Culfeightrin, Ballyvoy, County Antrim illustration: based on a St. Patrick's Church, Culfeightrin, Ballyvoy by Eric Jones. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.