Ballyhooly

Patrick Weston Joyce
1923

Ballyhooly near Mallow; took its name from an ancient ford on the Blackwater, called in the Book of Lismore Ath-ubhla [Ahoola]; the ford of the apples. The people now call it in Irish Baile-atha-ubhla (which they pronounce Blaa-hoola), the town of the apple ford, which has been shortened to the present name.