Ballinkillin[1] or Ballinkillen (Irish: Baile an Chillín, meaning 'settlement of the cillín')[1] is a small village between Borris and Bagenalstown in County Carlow, Ireland.

It includes a national school, shop, hurling pitch (Mc Donnell Park) and two housing estates.

There are four other examples of stained glass windows -in honour of St. Joseph, St. Patrick, Our Lady and Christ - all donated to the church.

The church at Lorum was more than likely the place of worship before this time and tradition says that there was a "mass" house near Ballinkillin Cross.

In 1798 the church escaped plunder by the Crown forces as it was then thatched and looked like a farm building and they passed it by.

The chapel yard started as a burial ground about 1817 and was consecrated by Bishop Doyle on Thursday, 26 September 1821.

The Calvary was erected in 1935, the statue to Our Lady in 1955 and the cement paths around the church were completed in 1989 by voluntary labour, the materials were donated.

The statues of Our Lady of Lourdes and St. Bernadette were donated by the Presentation Sisters, Carlow, on the closure of their convent in Tullow Street.

The founding members of the club were: Chairman: Peter Clerkin; Treasurer: Jackie McDonnell; Secretary: John O'Neill.

In 2001, Ballinkillin won its second senior hurling championship beating Mount Leinster Rangers in the final.

D. Murphy, C.C., Canon Rowntree, Lar Farrell, John Ryan and Willie Kidd.

Keenan Brothers erected the main ironwork structure and the block work was completed by local voluntary help.

In 1985 a club licence for the sale of alcohol was obtained and in that year the supper room was converted into a lounge bar.

He also donated the rents of the two annual fairs of Slyguff for the support of the school where all the poor children of his estate and the vicinity could be educated.

It is recorded that during the Irish famine his father allowed what money might be needed to buy meal for the poor to be drawn from his bank, his sons carried on this tradition of charity.

David La Touche lived in Upton House, Fenagh, and Harcourt Street, Dublin.

Martin Brennan in his book Schools of Kildare and Leighlin 1775–1835, describing conditions in County Carlow at that time said: "The chief obstacle to the education of the Irish peasantry, at least in this part of the country, is their poverty.

They have neither food nor raiment for the greater part, and even if they had, they have not the means of paying a small pittance to the master or of buying a book".

The work was carried out by Eamon Lalor, Garryhill, with heating contractors McCarthy/Blanchfield of Gowran and Byrne Electrical of Carlow at a cost of £56,000.

In addition, in 1984 a "cist" grave was uncovered by Shea Power whilst ploughing on Doran's land.

It consisted of a 2 x 1 .5 ft shallow chamber with a cap stone, containing two earthenware urns with human bones and grain.