Ballyhaise (/ˈbæliːˌheɪz/; Irish: Béal Átha hÉis[2]) is a village in County Cavan, Ireland. It is situated some 7 km (4.3 mi) north-northeast of Cavan Town. It is approximately a 15-minute drive or 11 km via the N54 to the border with County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. The River Annalee flows near the village.

Ballyhaise Béal Átha hÉis
Village
Ballyhaise House, now part of Ballyhaise Agricultural College run by Teagasc
Ballyhaise Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 54°03′N 7°19′W
Country	Ireland
Province	Ulster
County	Cavan
Elevation	84 m (276 ft)
Population  (2016)[1]	711
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid Reference	H446110

Location

The village of Ballyhaise is located within the parish of Castletara and contains both Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland churches.

History

Ballyhaise has elements of a planned estate village which was built to facilitate a local linen industry in the 1700s. The industry had failed by the 1800s.[3]

Ballyhaise Estate Village

Estate villages were typically known to be villages based around one estate, usually owned and preserved by one family. Originally, from the early years of the Plantation of Ulster onwards, the Ballyhaise Estate belonged to the Taylor family, but was carried into the Newburgh family through marriage.[4] The large proportion of the land of the estate was devoted to Colonel Brockhill Newburgh (c. 1659-1741), who built the first stone bridge over the River Annalee which led to Ballyhaise House in 1703. Newburgh built Ballyhaise Castle or Ballyhaise House and made extensive changes and improvements for the estate by plantations and buildings.[4] Newburgh and his two successors created the layout of the village with “great taste”. Through Newburgh and his successors efforts, the village and demesne of Ballyhaise was renowned for its beauty. It was said that visitors would travel “far and near” to observe the scenery and buildings in the village of Ballyhaise. The interesting architectural style of the houses in the town along with the castle and grottoes and gardens were all points of attraction in the village. [5]

Notable buildings

Ballyhaise House, situated on the River Annalee (a tributary of the Erne), was built for the Newburghs, a local landowning family, in the early eighteenth century.[6] Although a date of 1733 is often given for the start of construction of Ballyhaise House, most architectural historians now believe that the house was begun slightly earlier than this.[6] It is said to contain the earliest surviving oval room in Ireland and Britain. The building was traditionally credited to Richard Cassels, a German architect living in Dublin, who designed many of the capital's finest buildings and squares (including Leinster House). It is more recently thought that Ballyhaise House was actually designed by the architect of Parliament House in Dublin, Sir Edward Lovett Pearce.[6][7]

Ballyhaise House has been used as a Teagasc agricultural college (Ballyhaise College) since the beginning of the 20th century; the college celebrated its centenary in 2006.

The bridge near the house is reputed to be nearly 300 years old. Ballyhaise Bridge was built around 1710. It is made from roughly coursed limestone elevations which have elliptical arches having cut-stone arch rings. The bridge was positioned on a central axis with Ballyhaise House, which acts as a reminder to the formally laid out demesne.[8]

Ballyhaise Market House is a five-bay, two-storey building.

Transport

Bus

Local Link route C1 links the village with Cavan and Butlersbridge several times daily Mondays to Saturdays inclusive. Route C3 from Redhills to Cavan also serves the village with three services each way Mondays to Saturdays.

Rail

Ballyhaise railway station opened on 1 April 1862, closed for passenger traffic on 14 October 1957, and finally closed altogether on 1 January 1963.[9]

Community and sporting groups

The village is home to Ballyhaise GFC, the local Gaelic football team, their home pitch being Annalee Park. In addition to this, the village was for many years home to Castletara Youth Band - an accordion marching band which won multiple All-Ireland titles in the late 1990s and early 21st century.^{[citation needed]}

Ballyhaise Celtic Football Club was established in the village in 1990. Most recently^[when?] they opened their home venue, Ballyhaise Celtic Park, located in Glenconnor, Ballyhaise. The club has an established senior team competing in the Cavan Monaghan Senior League and an underage set-up competing in the Cavan Monaghan Underage League.^{[citation needed]}

Weather station

Met Éireann records climate data for County Cavan from their station in Ballyhaise.

On 21 December 2010, the maximum temperature recorded in Ballyhaise was -9C and the minimum -14C (average for the day -12C). This was the lowest daily maximum temperature recorded on the island of Ireland since records began in the 1800s.

From Saturday 18 December to Christmas Day (25th) the temperature in Ballyhaise never exceeded -2C and fell to a minimum each day of between -11C and -15C.

Notable people

• H.E. Seán Cardinal Brady (born 1939), Archbishop Emeritus of Armagh. Cardinal Brady served as the Catholic Lord Primate of All Ireland and Lord Archbishop of Armagh from 1996 until 2014. A native of Drumcalpin, a townland in the Civil Parish of Larah, he served, when he was Monsignor Brady, as the Parish Priest of Castletara in the early 1990s, being based in Ballyhaise.
• The Most Rev. Dr John Crozier (1853-1920), who served as Church of Ireland Lord Primate of All Ireland and Lord Archbishop of Armagh from 1911 until his death. Archbishop Crozier was born and raised at Rockview House at Knockfad, a townland on the outskirts of Ballyhaise. His father, who was a member of a prominent family from the south-east of County Fermanagh, was the Church of Ireland rector in Ballyhaise at the time.
• Seán Gallagher (born 1962), businessman who ran in both the 2011 and 2018 Irish presidential elections. Born in Monaghan Town, he spent most of his childhood and teenage years in Ballyhaise.
• Shaney McPhillips (born 1977), local raconteur who starred in The Run of the Country.
• Colonel Brockhill Newburgh (c. 1659-1741), local landlord and M.P. for Cavan County in the Irish House of Commons. Colonel Newburgh had Ballyhaise redesigned and laid out as an estate village, probably in the early eighteenth century, and he also had both Ballyhaise House and Ballyhaise Bridge built.[4][6]
• Lisa O'Neill (born 1982), folk singer.[10]
• Faithful Teate (1626-1666), poet and Puritan cleric. Probably born and raised in or near Ballyhaise during the Plantation of Ulster. He and his family had to flee from County Cavan during the 1641 Rebellion.

See also

• List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland
• List of market houses in the Republic of Ireland
• Redhills

References

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