Baptist School-House and Ballinagur Dispensary

Saints and Sinners History tour

Baptist School-House and Ballinagur Dispensary

County Mayo Ireland

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Ballinagur (now Ballynagor) once held a thriving community of protestant farmers, who were 'planted' here in the late 17th - early 18th century by the Jackson landlords of Eniscoe. They community consisted of two 'villages' of 'Faltabrack' and the rather more dispersed 'Plot' to the west (the latter is likely a corruption of the real name, now lost).

The Bapist schoolhouse was built here in the early 19th century to serve the local community and also functioned as an adminstration service centre, due to the lack of civic buildings in the parish in the pre-Great Famine period. Thus, the register of electors was displayed here, and the building also functioned as the local poor law dispensary. It continued in this service, long after the school closed in the post-Great Famine population decline which affected both protestant and catholic farming communities.

In later years it was known as 'Timble's dispensary' as the building was leased from a family of this name. Depsite in a much ruined state, the building displays a curious small apse-shaped construction on its western side of unknown function. The dispensary finally closed in the later 19th century and the Dispensary moved to the former Vicarage in nearby Garranard.

This point of interest is part of the tour: Saints and Sinners History tour


 

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