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{{short description|Seaside resort in County Kerry, Ireland}}
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|name                   = Ballyheigue
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|image_caption          = Ballyheigue as viewed from the nearby beach
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|subdivision_name1      = [[Munster]]
|subdivision_type3      = [[Counties of Ireland|County]]
|subdivision_name3      = [[County Kerry]]
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|area_total_km2         = 45
|population_as_of       = [[2022 census of Ireland|2022]]
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|population             = 546
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'''Ballyheigue''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|b|æ|l|i|ˈ|h|aɪ|ɡ}} {{respell|BAL|ee|HYEG|'}}), officially '''Ballyheige''' ({{irish place name|Baile Uí Thaidhg|town(land) of Tadhg}}),<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.logainm.ie/24337.aspx | website = logainm.ie | title = Baile Uí Thaidhg / Ballyheige | publisher = Placenames Database of Ireland}}</ref> is a coastal town and [[Civil parishes in Ireland|civil parish]] in [[County Kerry]], Ireland. It is {{convert|18|km|mi|abbr=on}} northwest of [[Tralee]] along the [[R551 road]]. It is a scenic locale which forms part of the [[Wild Atlantic Way]] and has several miles of beaches that connect to [[Banna Strand]] to the south, and [[Kerry Head]] to the north. Local events include the "Half on the Head" (Kerryhead) [[half marathon]] in June<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://halfonthehead.com/|title=half on the head &#124; the most scenic half marathon in Ireland}}</ref> and an annual summer festival in July.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ballyheigue Summer Festival |url=https://ballyheigue.ie/summer-festival/ |website=Ballyheigue 2022 |access-date=16 June 2024}}</ref> 

Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes multiple [[ringfort]], [[souterrain]], [[holy well]], [[Bullaun stone]] and [[fulacht fiadh]] sites in Ballyheige, Buncurrig, Dirtane and other surrounding [[townland]]s.<ref>{{cite book | title = North Kerry archaeological survey | first = Caroline | last = Toal | publisher = Brandon Books | date = 1995 | isbn = 0863221866 }}</ref> [[Ballyheigue Castle]], a ruined [[Tudor Revival architecture|Tudor Gothic Revival style]] country house, was built in 1809 on the site of an earlier house.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/21301401/ballyheige-castle-ballyheige-ballyheige-kerry | publisher = National Inventory of Architectural Heritage | website = buildingsofireland.ie | title = Ballyheige Castle, Ballyheige, Ballyheige, Kerry | accessdate = 3 August 2024 }}</ref>

The local [[Gaelic Athletic Association]] (GAA) club is [[Ballyheigue GAA]].<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.clubinfo.ie/club/ballyheigue-hc/ | website = clubinfo.ie | title = Ballyheigue HC | accessdate = 3 August 2024 }}</ref>

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|[[File:Kerry Head.jpg|thumb|Ballyheigue Strand]]
|<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:view from Kerryhead.jpg|thumb|View from Kerryhead, Sunset on the Atlantic and Mt. Brandon]] -->
|[[File:Ballyheigue castle.jpg|thumb|[[Ballyheigue Castle]]]]}}

==Notable people==
*[[Richard Cantillon]], economic theorist and coiner of the term ''[[entrepreneur]]''.<ref name="Jevons1881">{{cite journal
  | last = Jevons
  | first = William Stanley
  | title = Richard Cantillon and the Nationality of Political Economy
  | journal = Contemporary Review
  | volume = 1881
  | location = reprinted from: Cantillon, Richard. Essay on the Nature of Trade in General, Henry Higgs ed., 1959, pp. 334-360.
  | year = 1881
  | url =http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=285&chapter=23571&layout=html&Itemid=27
  | access-date = 2010-02-06}}</ref>
*[[Don O'Neill, Fashion Designer|Don O'Neill]], fashion designer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://irishamerica.com/2012/05/the-irish-don-of-fashion/ |title=The Irish Don of Fashion on |date=16 May 2012 |publisher=irishamerica.com |access-date= 13 February 2013 |quote=O'Neill grew up in the small seaside town of Ballyheigue in Co. Kerry }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland|List of towns and villages in Ireland]]

==Further reading==

*''The Story of Ballyheigue'', by Bryan MacMahon, published by Oidhreacht, Ballyheigue, County Kerry, May 1994 {{ISBN|0-9517658-2-5}}
*''The Crosbie Papers'', including [[manuscript]]s relating to the ''[[Denmark|Danish]] Silver Raid'', in documents of the ''Estate of John Viscount Crosbie'', NLI MS 5033, [[National Library of Ireland]], [[Kildare Street]], [[Dublin]].
*''New Light on The Golden Lion and the Danish Silver Robbery at Ballyheigue'', by B. Mac Mahon, published in the Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society. ''Vol: 24 pp:113-149'', 1991. Abstract: This article examines the robbery in 1731 of six chests of silver, part of the cargo of the 'Golden Lion' which was driven ashore at Ballyheigue during the previous year.
*''The Lively Ghosts of Ireland'', by Hans Holzer, Wolfe Publishing Ltd., London, 1967, 1968, reprinted 1970. See [[Chapter (books)|Chapter]] on Ballyheigue, page 32, recalling earlier article in 1962 by [[Patrick Denis O'Donnell]] in ''Ireland of the Welcomes''.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.ballyheigue.ie Ballyheigue Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006093616/http://www.ballyheigue.ie/ |date=2014-10-06 }}
*[http://homepage.eircom.net/~dinglemaps/genuki/KER/Ballyheigue/#Maps Ballyheigue Info Page]
*[http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlker/bheige1.html  Map of Ballyheigue & its townlands]

{{County Kerry}}

[[Category:Towns and villages in County Kerry]]
[[Category:Civil parishes of County Kerry]]
[[Category:Beaches of County Kerry]]