Ballitore (Irish: Béal Átha an Tuair)[8] is a village in County Kildare, Ireland, sometimes spelt as Ballytore.

It was an well-regarded boarding school, with Napper Tandy, Cardinal Paul Cullen, and the sons of Stratford Eyre among its students.

[20] Mary Leadbeater's house is situated on the corner of Ballitore's central village square, and is a preserved building and is now used as a museum and library.

[22] Throughout the Civil War, several of the homes and buildings in Ballitore and the surrounding areas were damaged and raided for goods and money.

The granddaughter of Abraham Shackleton, she was a pioneering educator whose pupils included Edmund Burke, Napper Tandy and Paul Cullen (who later became Ireland's first cardinal).

Griesebank House, once known as the Mill House,[9] is a Georgian property dating from about 1700 that has been noted by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as being of considerable social and historical importance for its links with the Shackleton family and the development of Ballitore as a Quaker village.

Like nearby Griesemount House, it is named after the River Greese (also spelt Griese; Irish: An Ghrís) which flows between them, and powered the mill.

Griesemount House is a period property located close to the village possessing intact Georgian features and layout, and containing four reception rooms and six bedrooms.

[30] In the early 1970s, the house passed into the ownership of Sara von Stade, the widow of an American army lieutenant killed in Germany during the Second World War and mother of Frederica von Stade, the world-famous mezzo-soprano singer.

Having bought it “for a knockdown price”, von Stade restored and updated the house including enhancement of the gardens.

The yard is enclosed by four stone walls and the graves are simple and uniform; flat slabs announcing names only, with no superfluous messages, as is Quaker tradition.

The village's Quaker Meeting House was restored in 1975 by Kildare County Council,[21] and won a European heritage award in 1979.

[34] Another one of the Leadbeater's houses was built with its gable end facing side-on to the main street and looked onto the village market square.

The meticulously ordered Quaker ethos of discipline and avoidance of excess can be observed in the design of the building with a sequence of lime-washed, small-windowed rooms which open up on each other.

[18] The 'Shaker Store', a workshop which sells Shaker furniture and other wooden gifts, is situated in the main square.

Butterfield's, a three-bay two-storey house dating to the late 1700s/early 1800s, is of architectural note retaining many important early or original salient features.

The village is served by bus route 880 operated by Kildare Local Link on behalf of the National Transport Authority.