Information about Ballyskeagh

Ballyskeagh in Down, Galway, and Tyrone; Baile-sceach, the townland of the skaghs or thorn bushes. For Sceach, see [reproduced below] vol. i. p. 518.

The white-thorn or haw-tree - Irish, sceach [skagh]. From these thorn-bushes, so plentifully diffused over the whole country, a vast number of places have received their names. There are numberous townlands called Skagh, Skea, and Skeagh, i.e. simply a thorn-bush; and these, along with the shorter from, Ske, begin the names of many others such as Skeaganore in Cork, the bush of the gold, and Skenarget in Tyrone, of the silver, both probably so called because the bushes marked the spots where the peasantry dresamed of, and dug for money.

Ireland was first mapped in the 1840s. These original maps are available online.
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Ballyskeagh

This link is not a link to the townland that you are currently researching; however, if you follow this link, you will see a search box near the top of the page which you can use to search for your townland.

Having followed this link, you will see several expandable links - each link has a plus sign on its left - on the top left of the page. Expand 'Base Information and Mapping'. Now it is possible to select the maps that you wish to view by clicking on the checkbox that is on the left of each map; this list includes the original Ordnance Survey maps.

You can select more than one map and you can use a slider to make one map more transparent than another. This allows you to view what features were present or absent at different points in time.
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Ballyskeagh

The Down Survey website will tell you who owned this townland in 1641 (pre Cromwell) and in 1671 (post Cromwell).

Down Survey Website
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You can use this link to find this townland on Google Maps.

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You can use this link to view a map of archaelogical features.
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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service

This is a list of townlands that share a border with this townland.

• Caherlissakill
• Corralea
• Crooroe
• Glennagloghaun
• Knockatober
• Peak

You can retrieve a list of people who lived in this townland from 1827 to 1911. This list is compiled from the following resources.

• The Tithe Applotment Books
• Griffith's Valuation
• 1901 Census
• 1911 Census

List of nineteenth century and early twentieth century inhabitants of this townland.

Church records of births, deaths and marriages are available online at http://www.rootsireland.ie. To search these records you will need to know the 'church parish' rather than the 'civil parish'. (The civil parish is the pre-reformation parish and was frequently used as a unit of administration in the past.)

Ballyskeagh is in the civil parish of Monivea.

This civil parish corresponds with the following Roman Catholic parish or parishes.

• Abbeyknockmoy
• Athenry

This civil parish corresponds with the following Church of Ireland parish.

• Monivea

In general, the civil parish and the Church of Ireland parish are the same, but, this is not always the case.