Ballynaclogh

Surveyed as part of a project co-funded by the Silvermines Historical Society & the Local Diaspora Fund 2015.

Detached board of First Fruits Church, built in1815,now derelict. Comprising octagonal-plan nave with bay side elevations and three stage tower to the west having castellations and pinnacles, and single-bay vestry addition to north,with pitched slate roof, cut limestone eaves course and brick chimneystack. The cover photograph was taken by Tom Doherty Photographer.

In the LewisTopographical Dictiobnary of Ireland the Protestant Church in Ballinaclough described as a neat modern structure that was built with the assisance of a grant of £500 from the church body known as the Board of the First Fruits. Inside, the church was fitted with box pews, overlooked by a choir gallery and organ loft at the belfry end of the church. The church was capable of accommodating eighty people.

In 1833, the Astronomer Royal for Ireland, William Rowan Hamilton, marriied Helen Maria Bayly of Bayly Farm in a ceremony conducted by the Very Rev John Head. William (later Sir Wllliam) Rowan Hamilton now is an internationally recognised mathematical genius whose quaternion mathematcs lie behind the animation of cmputer games and are used in the control of satellites in space.