Ballingeary (Irish: Béal Átha n'Ghaorthigh) is a village in the Shehy Mountains in County Cork, Ireland.
A Gaeltacht or Irish-speaking area, it is an important centre for Irish-language tuition, with an active summer school, Coláiste na Mumhan, or The College of Munster.
The River Lee rises a few miles west of the village, at Gougane Barra National Park.
An annual agricultural and horticultural show is held there every year.
Ballingeary is ideal as a central base to explore the rest of West Cork and Kerry.
Ballingeary Cumann Staire (Ballingeary Historical Society), procured the 'Famine Pot' which was used in the parish during the famine years to feed the hungry.
Ballingeary is talking part in the Greenways Festival in summer 2003 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the legendary 1603 march of O’Sullivan Beara from the Beara Peninsula to the Breifne area.
BALLINGEARY cruised to victory over Na Piarsaigh in the Evening Echo Cork Co JFC quarter-final at Pairc Ui Rinn last night.In the process, they served notice that they will take some beating in the championship.
With Peadar Concannon orchestrating matters at midfield, they were dominant, but continued to be wasteful in front of goal and for all their possession they could only manage a 0-2 to 0-0 lead at the end of the opening quarter.
By the 20th minute Ballingeary had stretched their lead to five points with no hint of a Piarsaigh score, but it was a poor return for the amount of possession they enjoyed.
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