Ballinadee
Village in County Cork, Ireland
Ballinadee (Irish: Baile na Daibhche) is a village in County Cork, Ireland. It lies in the parish of Courceys, approximately 12 km by road west of Kinsale and 9 km south east of Bandon. Ballinadee is on the banks of the River Pound, which flows into the River Bandon, and has a school, two churches and two pubs. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.
01Built heritage
Ballinadee Church, the local Anglican (Church of Ireland) church, has been in the centre of the village since 1759. There is also a large flour mill building nearby, which dates to c. 1800 and which was described in Samuel Lewis's 1837 Topographical Dictionary of Ireland as a "mill of great power, which was much improved in 1836".
02Sport
Courcey Rovers GAA is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Ballinspittle and Ballinadee. De Courcey Albion is the local soccer club, also based in Ballinspittle and Ballinadee.
03People
- Liam Deasy (1896, 1974), Irish Republican Army officer who fought in the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, was from the area.
- Tom Hales (1892, 1966), Irish Republican Army volunteer and politician, was also born near Ballinadee.
Sources and credits
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- The centre of Ballinadee (geograph 6257467).jpg by Neville Goodman, CC BY-SA 2.0
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