Ballitore

Ballitore
Béal Átha an Tuair
Town
Ballitore
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°00′31″N 6°49′05″W / 53.00859°N 6.81805°W / 53.00859; -6.81805Coordinates: 53°00′31″N 6°49′05″W / 53.00859°N 6.81805°W / 53.00859; -6.81805
Country Ireland
Province Leinster
County Kildare
Population (2011)
 • Urban 685
Time zone UTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid Reference S796955

Ballitore (Irish: Béal Átha an Tuair) is a village in County Kildare, Ireland, sometimes spelt Ballytore.

It is noted for its historical Quaker associations. The Quaker School in Ballitore was founded by Abraham Shackleton (1697–1771) in 1726 which catered for Quakers from many parts of Ireland as well as both Protestant and Catholic local children.[6] Parliamentarian Edmund Burke, a student at Shackleton's school from 1741-1744, remained devoted to his old master, whom he termed "the planter of the future age".[7] The former home of Mary Leadbeater, a local diarist, is now a Quaker Museum. The Quaker School is proposed for demolition in order to make way for a Glanbia development in the centre of the town.[8]

Pupils came from as far away as Bordeaux, Jamaica and Norway to stay and study in the school, staying in a row of houses in the village whose attics had been knocked into one long room.

Demographics

In the 2002 Census Ballitore had a population of 338. In 1837 the population was 933.[9]

Transport & communications

Public transport

The village is served by bus route 880 operated by Kildare Local Link on behalf of the National Transport Authority. There are several buses each day including Sunday linking the village to Castledermot, Carlow and Naas as well as villages such as Moone in the area.[10]

People associated with Ballitore

Sport

See also

References

  1. ↑ Census for post 1821 figures. Archived September 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ http://www.histpop.org Archived 2016-05-07 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 17, 2012. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
  4. ↑ Lee, JJ (1981). "Pre-famine". In Goldstrom, J. M.; Clarkson, L. A. Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
  5. ↑ Mokyr, Joel; O Grada, Cormac (November 1984). "New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850". The Economic History Review. 37 (4): 473–488. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x.
  6. ↑ Merchants, Mystics and Philanthropists - 350 Years of Cork Quakers Richard S. Harrison
  7. ↑ Bourke, Richard (2015). Empire & Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke. Personal library: Princeton University Press. pp. 44–48. ISBN 978-0-691-14511-2.
  8. ↑ http://www.thejournal.ie/old-quaker-school-kildare-glanbia-1050067-Aug2013/
  9. ↑ Entry for Ballytore in Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)
  10. ↑ http://www.martinheydon.com/2015/08/1879/

Further reading

  • Biographical Dictionary of Irish Quakers Richard S. Harrison 1997
  • Memoirs and letters of Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton, late of Ballitore, Ireland; compiled by their daughter, Mary Leadbeater, including a concise biographical sketch, and some letters, of her grandfather, Abraham Shackleton Shackleton, Richard, 1726-1792. London, Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1822.
  • Poems Mary Leadbeater London 1808
  • The Annals of Ballitore 1766-1824 Mary Leadbeater ; edited and introduced by John MacKenna ; illustrated by Mary Cunningham. Athy, Co. Kildare Stephen Scroop Press 1986
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