Ballinacree features on Nationwide – September 2023

Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh met Local Historian, Seamus Smith as they visited the Ballinacree Heritage Room and Ballinacree Woollen Mills.  You can now watch this episode on the RTE Player: Nationwide 30 September 2023 or visit Ballinacree Features on Nationwide.

Heritage Week 2019

Ballinacree Historical Society will hold a talk on the Great Famine in Ballinacree Community Centre on Sat the 24th August at 8.30pm. There will also be a display of vintage farm, garden and household items and memorabilia that reflect the business, social, and sporting life of the area since the famine on Sun 25th Aug from 2 – 5pm, in the Community Centre. Anyone wishing to display items contact 087 2381756 or ballinacreehistorical@gmail.com

Heritage Week 2018

Share a story, make a connection
19-25 August 2018
Check out all events on:  Heritage Week

Creating your Family History / Re-launch of Ballinacree Historical Society Website

Friday, 24 August 2018, 8:30pm – 10:30pm

Ballinacree Historical Society, Ballinacree Community Centre, Co. Meath

• Admission Free
• Car Parking Available

PAST EVENTS / PRESENTATIONS

The following is a list of talks and events which have taken place in Ballinacree over the past few years.

• History of Local Milling and the Tormay family by Michael Conlon
• Aspects of the history of Oldcastle and surrounding area by John Smith
• The Ordinance survey in County Meath by Seamus McGabhan
• Folklore of the North Meath area by Seamus McGabhan
• Place Names also available as presentation
• The Nugent Family of Bobsgrove by Myles Stoney whose grandfather was Sir Oliver Nugent.
• Kates Journey by Graham Wilson
• The Ballinacree Banner, which celebrated its 100 anniversary this year (1911) by Eugene Markey also available as presentation
• Genealogy by Ruth Lawlor
• The Crossdrum Chalice by Sean McCabe, also available as presentation
• History of the Kilroy family of Moat View by Richard Kilroy
• The Hedge schools and its books by Antonia McManus
• Patrick Kavanagh by Vincent Coyle
• History of Millbrook Mills by Malachy Hand
• Tax and Land records from the 1800’s by Seamus Smith also available as presentation (2014)
• Stepping Stones by Seamus Smith also available as presentation (2015)
• St Oliver Plunkett by Monsignor John Hanly (2015)
• Tools and Tasks of yesteryear modified version for school children by Seamus Smith also available as presentation 2016
• The history of the Ballinacree Band by Seamus Smith also available as presentation (2016)
• The life of Rodney Matthews by Ron Chapman and Seamus Smith, presented by Seamus Smith in Oldcastle library and in Ballinacree Community Center also available as presentation (2017)
• Ballinacree in the 1800’s by Seamus Smith also available as presentation (2017)

Other presentations created from the archives and further research by members of the society are

• The Mills of the area by Seamus Smith
• Between Loughcrew and Lough Sheelin from ‘Stories from Ballinacree’ article by Bernard Smith
• Flax growing by Seamus Smith
• Folklore from the archives by Seamus Smith
• Hero’s and Villains by Seamus Smith
• Killeagh Griffiths Valuation from the Archives
• Killeagh Tithes from the Archives
• Kilbride Griffiths Valuation from the archives
• Place Names from the archives and Seamus Smith
• Ballinacree – video version by Alo Connaughton and Seamus Smith
• History chiselled in stone from ‘Stories from Ballinacree’ article by Bernard Smith
• Solving the Land, question from the archives
• Fossils, from the archives and Seamus Smith
• Stone Tools and Buildings – from the archives
• Schools of the Area, by Seamus Smith
• Tools and Tasks of Yesteryear, by Seamus Smith
• Faces of Ballinacree – from the archives
• Irish flags by Seamus Smith
• Symbols of Ireland by Seamus Smith