Ballymacoda () is a small village in

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, Ireland. As of the 2016 census, the village had a population of 185 people. Located in

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, the village is home to one pub, a post office, and Saint Peter in Chains

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church. This church was built between 1855 and 1865 and replaced an earlier church on the same site, and is in the Diocese of Cloyne and the parish of Ballymacoda and Ladysbridge. The local GAA club,

Fr. O'Neill's GAA Fr O'Neill's GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club founded in 1959 and based in the parish of Ballymacoda and Ladysbridge in County Cork, Cork, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The club fields hurling and Gaelic football teams in competitions or ...

, represents the same parish area. The club fields

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and

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teams in competitions organised by the Cork county board and Imokilly division. The Ballymacoda Bay SPA (

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) and Ballymacoda SAC (

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) are protected

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s, designated to be of importance under the

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and EU legislation, located just north and east of the village.

Notable people

* (1709-c.1792), a

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and Jacobite Chief Bard of the district; known for his

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ry in

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during the 18th-century. *

Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún (1777–1856) was an Irish people, Irish immigrant to the United States, where he continued composing Irish poetry, poetry in Munster Irish and contributed to literature in the Irish language outside Ireland. Life Cún ...

(1777-1856),

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who emigrated around 1826 and continued writing poetry in the Irish language while in America, which he mailed to his former neighbours in Ballymacoda. * Peter O'Neill Crowley (1832–1867), local leader of the

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who died during the

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of 1867. He is buried in Ballymacoda.

References

External links

Ballymacoda History Project (ballymacoda.ie)
Towns and villages in County Cork {{Cork-geo-stub