page_title: Ballyvourney
section_title: Amenities and attractions
hierarchical_section_title: Ballyvourney / Ballyvourney today / Amenities and attractions
caption_attribution_description: English: Ballyvourney Church
context_page_description: Ballyvourney, is a Gaeltacht village in southwest County Cork, Ireland. It is a civil parish in the barony of Muskerry West, and is also an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne. Ballyvourney is part of the Cork North-West Dáil Constituency.
context_section_description: St. Gobnet's Wood is an old 30 ha woodland mainly planted in old Sessile Oak.
  The local national school is called Scoil Aban Naofa and is named after Aban, a saint associated with the area.
  
  The secondary school, Coláiste Ghobnatan, was formed in 1989 following the merger of Coláiste Iosagáin and Scoil Ghobnatan. According to the school principal, Breandán O Lionáird, 
  "The College is named in honour of Saint Gobnait, patron Saint of Baile Bhúirne and indeed we place all our work under her protection.".
   The grounds of "Coláiste Íosagáin", a former De La Salle college, was where Song for a Raggy Boy was filmed.
  The film The Wind That Shakes the Barley was also filmed in nearby locations.
  The bars and restaurants in the village are "The Mills Inn", "The Abbey Hotel", "The Hibernian", "The Crúiscín Lán"and "The Village Takeaway & Diner". The Mills Inn is built on the site of the former police barracks.
  Cultural events include:
  Patron Saint's Day (Irish: Lá Pátrúin), February 11.
  Whit Sunday feast day.
  Ballyvourney - Coolea Annual Show (Irish: Taispeántas Bhaile Bhúirne), College Field.
  Cultural & Heritage Centre (Irish: Ionad Cultúrtha Baile Bhúirne) which also holds educational programmes and traditional music concerts.
  Irish language courses organised by Gael-Linn in the Irish College (Irish: Coláiste Bhaile Bhúirne).
caption: Former church of the Church of Ireland and ruins of St Gobnait's priory
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