Ballineaspigmore and Bishopstown House

McCarthy, J. P.

Ballineaspigmore and Bishopstown House

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Date

1981

Authors

McCarthy, J. P.

Publisher

Bishopstown Community Association

Abstract

Ballineaspig, anglicised Bishopstown, consists of two townlands which are Ballineaspigmore and Ballineaspigbeg. Taken together, both townlands occupy an area identifiable in modern day terms as lying approximately between the old Glasheen National School on the east side and what was, until recently, the University Farm Curraheen Road on the west. A townland is the smallest administrative land division in Ireland. Historians and other scholars are as yet inconclusive about the origins of these divisions. They are certainly as old as the seventeenth century. The townland with which this booklet is concerned is known as Ballineaspigmore. It extends west from the new Regional Hospital at Wilton and includes modern housing estates such as Uam-Var, Benvoirlich and Firgrove. The simplest translation of the townland name is the large land division of the bishop. To clarify a popular misconception, Bishopstown does not derive its name from the fact that in the early eighteenth century a bishop of Cork built his country residence there. The name is much older and can be found in sources dating back to the sixteenth century.

Keywords

Archaeology , Bishopstown

Citation

McCarthy, J. P., 1981, Ballineaspigmore and Bishopstown House, Bishopstown Community Association, 59 p.