Ballinagree
| Ballinagree Irish: Baile na Graí | |
| County Cork | |
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 Standing stone by Ballinagree | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | W365809 |
| Location: | 51°58’37"N, 8°55’30"W |
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| Dáil constituency: |
Cork North-West |
Ballinagree, sometimes Ballynagree, is a small village situated at the foot of the Boggeragh Mountains in County Cork, 18 miles west of the City of Cork, six miles north-east of Macroom, and four miles west of Rylane.
The surrounding area is one of the richest areas in the British Isles for megalithic monuments.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a number of housing estates were developed, but the properties were not sold; leaving the village with so-called "ghost estates".[1]
The Irish folk song Thady Quill was written about a man of that name (Timothy Quill) of Ballinagree. Though Quill in real life was nothing like the hard-drinking, womanising athlete of the song, it was a tribute to him by Johnny Tom Gleeson, written in lieu of payment when Gleeson was unable to pay Quill for his day's labour.
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References
- ↑ English, Eoin (16 June 2014). "Nationwide look shows slow progress on ghost estates". Irish Examiner. http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/special-report-nationwide-look-shows-slow-progress-on-ghost-estates-272166.html. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
