Ballyhahill

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Ballyhahill
Baile Dhá Thuile or Baile Uí Sháithil
Village
Country Ireland
Province Munster
County County Limerick
Population (2016)[1] 146
Time zone WET (UTC+0)
 • Summer (DST) IST (WEST) (UTC-1)
Irish Grid Reference R191460

Ballyhahill (Irish: Baile Dhá Thuile or Baile Uí Sháithil)[2] is a village and townland in County Limerick, Ireland. As of the 2016 census, the village had a population of 146 people.[1] It is 40 km west of Limerick city. The White River flows to the east of the village.[3][4]

Name

According to the Placenames Database of Ireland, two Irish language derivations of the village name are proposed: Baile Dhá Thuile ("town of two floods") or Baile Uí Sháithil ("town of Ó Sáithil").[2] The former (Baile Dhá Thuile) has official recognition and appears on road signage around Ballyhahill.

History

Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of ringfort sites in the townland of Ballyhahill and the neighbouring townlands of Mohernagh and Finnoo.[5] A Carnegie library was built in Ballyhahill c. 1907.[6] The local national (primary) school, Scoil Naomh Mhuire, was built in 1959.[7] As of 2017, the school had 39 pupils enrolled.[8]

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