Béal Átha an Tuair

Béal Átha an Tuair—literally the mouth of the ford with a bleaching green—perfectly captures Ballitore's origins as a planned settlement on productive land. The village was established in the early 18th century by John Bancroft and Abel Strettel as Ireland's only planned Quaker community, with a meeting house constructed around 1707. Abraham Shackleton founded the village school in 1726, attrac...