Standard Name:
Ballybaunbeg
Irish Form of Name:
Baile ban beag
Translation:
white town (little)
Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Ballybaunbeg
Baile ban beag
Ballybaanbeg Clerk of the Peace
Ballybane County Map
Ballybane Freehold Registry
Ballybanebeg Rent Ledger
Ballybaanbeg Rev. A. H. Martin, Square, Galway
Ballybane Sir V. Blake Bart
Ballybaanbeg Sketch Map
Ballybaanbeg The Rev. P. Daly, P.P.
Ballybaanbeg Tithe Applotment Book
Description:
Propr. Governors of Erasmus Smith, Dublin. Agent Mr. Hunt, Gort. This townland is held by 4 tenants under a lease of 21 years, rent £2. 10s. per acre and let as per acre £3 to £4. Soil a heavy clay, producing potatoes, wheat, oats, etc. On this townland is the residence of Walter Joyce, Esqr., Merview House, a neat house. Three stories high with offices, garden and demesne handsomely planted, also a neat Lodge called Browns Lodge on Mount Brown. There is the ruins of an old church called St. James’s Church.
Situation:
S. E. of the parish. Bounded onN. By Glananayle, Castlegar and Parkmore, on E. by Ballybrit, Ballybaanmore and Rahylin Glebe, on the South by the parish of Oranmore in the Liberties and Townland Renmore, and on the W. by Mile Stone, Well Park and Townparks.
Original OS map of this area.
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Ireland was first mapped in the 1840s. These original maps are available online.
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Original OS maps at the Ordnance Survey of Ireland website.
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