Ballitore

Infobox Irish Place
name = Ballitore
gaeilge = Béal Átha an Tuair
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county = Kildare
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Ballitore (Irish place name|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 I (1697-1771) in 1726 which catered for Quakers from many parts of Ireland as well as local children both Protestant and Catholic. [Merchants, Mystics and Philanthropists - 350 Years of Cork Quakers Richard S. Harrison] . The former home of Mary Leadbeater, a local diarist, is now a Quaker Museum.

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 [ [http://kildare.ie/heritage/lewis-topographical-dictionary/ballytore.asp Entry for Ballytore in Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)] ] .

Transport & communications

* N9 road
* R747 road

People associated with Ballitore

* Richard Brocklesby, English physician, educated in Ballitore
* Edmund Burke, Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher
* Paul Cardinal Cullen, cardinal, and the Catholic primate of Ireland
* Mary Leadbeater, local writer & poet
* Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish explorer
* Isaac and Ann Evans Jackson [ [http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/Isaac_Jackson_(1665-1751) Isaac and Ann Evans Jackson] ] , early Irish-English Quakers who were married in Ballitore in 1696, and later migrated with their large family to rural Chester County, Pennsylvania USA in 1725 where their posterity thrived until the American War for Independence. Patrilineal collateral/removed cousins of these Jacksons were Andrew Jackson, President of the US in the 1830s, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, the Confederate Army Cavalry General during the US Civil War.
* Napper Tandy, revolutionary.

port

* St Laurence's GAA is based in the parish of Narraghmore, encompassing Kilmeade, Booley, Narraghmore, Calverstown, Kilgowan, Brewel, Ballymount, Ballitore and Mullaghmast.

References

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

ee also

* Shackleton (crater) on the Moon, named after Ernest Shackleton
* Shackleton Glacier - Antarctic Glacier, named after Ernest Shackleton
* Shackleton Ice Shelf - Antarctic Ice shelf, named after Ernest Shackleton
* Shackleton Inlet - Antarctic inlet, named after Ernest Shackleton
* Shackleton Range - Antarctic mountain range, named after Ernest Shackleton
* Shackleton-Rowett Expedition Ernest Shackleton's last Antarctic expedition
* RRS Ernest Shackleton - Royal Research Ship owned by the British Antarctic Survey, named after Ernest Shackleton
* Avro Shackleton - a Royal Air Force long-range patrol bomber, named after Ernest Shackleton
* "Shackleton" - a Channel 4 Television adventure drama being the story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 South Pole expedition
* List of towns in the Republic of Ireland
* Market Houses in the Republic of Ireland

External links

* [http://www.quakers-in-ireland.ie/meetings/balytore.htm Quakers in Ballitore]
* [http://kildare.ie/tourism/towns/ballitore.asp Ballitore]