Ballymackey

Ballymackey ({{Irish place name|Bhaile Uí Mhacaí}}) is a townland{{Cite web |url=https://www.logainm.ie/46222.aspx |title=Baile Uí Mhacaí/Ballymackey |work=Irish placenames database}} and a civil parish{{Cite web |url=https://www.logainm.ie/2229.aspx |title=Baile Uí Mhacaí/Ballymackey |work=Irish placenames database |access-date=5 April 2017 |archive-date=25 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225014822/https://www.logainm.ie/ga/2229 |url-status=live }} in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is located between Toomevara and Cloughjordan. It is in the Dáil constituency of Offaly which incorporates 24 electoral divisions that were previously in the constituency of North Tipperary.{{cite web |url=http://www.constituency-commission.ie/docs/Constit-Rep-2012-Chap-5.6.pdf |title=Constituency Commission Report 2012 – Waterford – Tipperary – Laois – Offaly – Kildare area |work=Constituency Commission |date=14 July 2012 |access-date=5 April 2017 |archive-date=18 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018091057/http://www.constituency-commission.ie/docs/Constit-Rep-2012-Chap-5.6.pdf |url-status=live }}

Facilities

Ballymackey Football Club plays on an AstroTurf pitch in Ballinree. Some of their star players include Emmet Dwyer, Paraic “podge” Bergin and Matthew Bergin. Their most legendary player is Rylan Caplice who once scored a hat-trick against Moneygall. {{Cite web|url = http://tipperarytimes.com/local-news/ballymackey-local-news/admin/ballymackey-fc-notes-october-7th/|title = Ballymackey FC Notes – October 7th|date = 7 October 2014|access-date = 5 April 2017|archive-date = 6 April 2017|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170406022959/http://tipperarytimes.com/local-news/ballymackey-local-news/admin/ballymackey-fc-notes-october-7th/|url-status = live}}

The recycling centre located at Ballaghveny{{cite web |url=https://www.epa.ie/terminalfour/waste/waste-view.jsp?regno=W0078-02 |title=Waste licence application W0078-02 |date=16 March 2004 |website=Environmental Protection Agency |access-date=25 December 2021 |archive-date=6 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406201645/http://www.epa.ie/terminalfour/waste/waste-view.jsp?regno=W0078-02 |url-status=live }} in Ballymackey was closed in 2011 pending a new arrangement being set up to run the facility.{{Cite news |url=http://www.tipperarystar.ie/news/local-news/170423/Council-to-Close-Landfill-for-.html |title=Council to Close Landfill for Three Years |date=8 June 2011 |newspaper=Tipperary Star |access-date=5 April 2017 |archive-date=6 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406021318/http://www.tipperarystar.ie/news/local-news/170423/Council-to-Close-Landfill-for-.html |url-status=live }}

Notable people

William Chester, the fifth Bishop of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and KilmacduaghHandbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 {{ISBN|0-521-56350-X}}, 9780521563505 and author.Amongst others he wrote "Behold I come quickly" (George Herbert: Dublin, 1861); "The Christian Sacrifice" (ibid, 1873) and "Communion with God" (ibid, 1889) > British Library website accessed 19:32GMT 4 January 2011 Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, held the incumbency at Ballymackey before his appointment to the episcopateThe Times, Saturday, 19 January 1884; pg. 5; Issue 31034; col EThe New Bishop Of Killaloe in 1884.The Bishop of Killaloe. The Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Tuesday, 4 March 1884; Issue 21411

The Ó Tighearnaigh of Ormond family held land in Ormond Upper including Ballymackey.{{fact|date=September 2021}}

Buildings of interest

The ruined St Michael's church at Cloonmore was commissioned by the Board of First Fruits. The building is listed as being of special Architectural, Archaeological and Social interest.{{Cite web|url=http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TN®no=22402105|title=Saint Michael's Church, CLOONMORE, TIPPERARY NORTH|access-date=5 April 2017|archive-date=6 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406112404/http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TN®no=22402105|url-status=live}}

Castle Willington is an 18th-century Georgian style private residence with a 19th-century towerhouse style extension. Located beside the Ollatrim River in the downland of Killowney Big. The building is listed as being of architectural and archaeological interest.{{Cite web|url=http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TN®no=22402103|title=Castle Willington, KILLOWNEY BIG, TIPPERARY NORTH|access-date=5 April 2017|archive-date=6 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406112159/http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TN®no=22402103|url-status=live}}

Townlands in the civil parish

Ballaghveny
Ballinahemery
Ballinree
Ballyknockane
Ballymackey
Bessborough
Clashnevin
Clonalea
Cloonmore
Coolderry
Derrybane
Derrycarney
Donnybrook
Elmhill
Falleen
Garravally
Gortnadrumman
Grenanstown
Kilgorteen
Killeisk
Killowney Big
Killowney Little
Knockahunna
Knockanglass
Lismore
Lisnamoe
Lissanisky
Newtown
Park
Riverlawn
Shanbally
Tooreigh
Wilton
Woodville

References

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Category:Civil parishes of Ormond Upper

Category:Townlands of County Tipperary