Ballinskelligs
Ballinskelligs
Baile an Sceilg | |
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Village | |
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  Ballinskelligs Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates:51°49′33″N10°16′20″W/ 51.825885°N 10.272217°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Kerry |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 375 (Electoral District)[1] |
| Irish Grid Reference | V429657 |
| Website | http:// visitballinskelligs.ie |
| Official name: Baile an Sceilg | |
Ballinskelligs,officiallyBaile an Sceilg(Irishfor "town (townland) of the craggy rock" ),[2][3]is atownlandin thecivil parishof Prior,County Kerry,Ireland.It may also refer to the wider district around the townland.[4]It is located in the south-west of theIveragh peninsula(Uíbh Ráthach) and is within theGaeltacht.According to the 2016 census about 10% of the population of the electoral division speak Irish on a daily basis outside the education system.[5]The townland was in thePoor law unionofCahersiveen.
The rocks referred to in the area’s Irish name are theSkellig Islands—Skellig MichaelandLittle Skellig—an ancient monastic colony which lies off the coast from Ballinskelligs. The town is also the site of a beach.[6]
Ballinskelligs was the termination site of an earlytransatlantic telegraph cablelaid in 1875 fromTor Bay, Nova Scotia,Canada—a distance of 2,565 nautical miles (4,750 km).[7]
Notable features
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Ballinskelligs Castleis situated on the western shore of Ballinskelligs Bay, on a narrow promontory which is subject to heavy erosion.[8][9]The castle was constructed by theMacCarthy Mór dynastyin the 16th century to protect the bay from pirates, and possibly in order to charge a tariff on incoming trade vessels.[8]
Ballinskelligs Priorywas an Arrouaisian house ofAugustiniancanons.[10]
Within Ballinskelligs are the two parts of theCill Rialaigproject, the Artist Retreat in the former village of Cill Rialaig, and the Arts Centre in the village of Dun Geagan. The project is led, since its foundation in the 1990s, by local residentNoelle Campbell-Sharpof Canuig House.[11]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Table 10: Population in each county, city, rural area and electoral division within the Gaeltacht, 2006 and 2011"(PDF).Census 2011.Central Statistics Office. p. 130.
- ^Placenames Database of Ireland
- ^Deidre Flanagan et al.:Irish Place Names,Gill & Macmillan, 1994,ISBN0-7171-2066-X,p. 172
- ^"Ballinskelligs - Where is Ballinskelligs?".Visit Ballinskelligs.Retrieved23 August2019.
...what often confuses first time visitors is that Ballinskelligs isn't a town or a village, it's an area made up of small villages...
- ^"ArcGIS Web Application".census.cso.ie.Archived fromthe originalon 28 November 2017.Retrieved15 November2020.
- ^Lord Killanin and Michael V. Duignan:The Shell Guide to Ireland,Ebury Press, London 1967, p. 86
- ^Glover, Bill."Direct United States Cable Company Cable Station ~ Rye Beach, New Hampshire".History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications.Atlantic Cable.
- ^abBallinskelligs Castle Committee."Ballinskelligs Castle".Archived fromthe originalon 11 February 2013.Retrieved20 August2012.
- ^Sheehan, John (1988)."Ballinskelligs Castle, Ballinskelligs".Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.Archived fromthe originalon 22 November 2007.Retrieved21 August2012.
- ^Saints and Stones."Ballinskelligs Priory".Retrieved21 August2012.
- ^Smith, Andrea (18 June 2014)."My mother got pregnant at 20".Evening Herald.Retrieved28 May2024.
