Ballinard (civil parish)
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Ballinard
Baile an Aird | |
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Civil parish | |
  Ballinard Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°31′N 8°27′W / 52.517°N 8.450°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Limerick |
Ballinard (Irish: Baile an Aird, meaning 'the high town')[1 1] is a civil parish and townland located in the eastern part of County Limerick, Ireland. The civil parish is part of the barony of Smallcounty. The largest population centre is the village of Herbertstown.[1] The south-eastern part of the parish borders the parish of Kilcullane. Geologically, the parish rests on a substratum of limestone, except in some few places where the basalt rises.
According to Lewis' Topography of Ireland (1837), the parish contained 867 inhabitants and comprised 1366 statute acres. The land was recorded as "in general good". The rectory was impropriate in Edward Deane Freeman. The tithes of the parish amounted to £148, 18 shillings, of which two-thirds were payable to the impropriator[2][3] and the remainder to the vicar. Lewis recorded that there were two pay schools in the parish. The remains of "Ballynard Castle" were to be found on the hill by Ballinard townland itself. This castle was the main seat of a branch of the FitzGerald dynasty that was built in the fifteenth century. The Powel family, who gave their name to a neighbouring townland, had a mansion at Eaglestown.[citation needed]
