Ballymakeera or Ballymakeery ( ga, Baile Mhic Íre , meaning "Townland of the Sons of Íre") is a small townland and

Gaeltacht ( , , ) are the districts of Ireland, individually or collectively, where the Irish government recognises that the Irish language is the predominant vernacular, or language of the home. The ''Gaeltacht'' districts were first officially recog ...

village in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

of Ballyvourney, barony of Muskerry West,

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. The village, which in turn has postal addresses of Ballymakeera East and Ballymakeera West, forms part of the twin villages of Ballymakeery and Ballyvourney. The village is situated in the valley of the

River Sullane The River Sullane ( ga, An Sulán) runs from the mountains between County Cork and County Kerry in southern Ireland, near the village of Cúil Aodha. After passing Ballyvourney, it runs through the centre of Macroom, to which it provides drink ...

on the N22 national primary road. It is within the Muskerry Gaeltacht. Ballymakeera is part of the Cork North-West (Dáil constituency). Three Ogham stones are nearby with the somewhat later addition of a Christian shrine to St Abán.Tom Pullman. Photograph o
Ogham stones near Baile Mhic Íre
2003-07-23. The sean-nós singer

Elizabeth Cronin Elizabeth "Bess" Cronin ( ga, Eibhlís Uí Chróinín, italic=no; 29 May 18792 June 1956) was an influential singer of Irish traditional music in the sean-nós style. She sang hundreds of songs which she learnt as a youth, half of which were in ...

lived in the village.

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