placenamesBallyclogh
Baile Cloch
Mountnorth and Kilgobban preserve different kinds of memory within Ballyclogh’s electoral division.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Baile Cloch · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballyclogh · English · main form
Place & story
Mountnorth before its decline
Mountnorth Court was a substantial Lysaght residence before it became a ruin. The University of Galway’s estate record draws on two eighteenth-century descriptions: Smith recorded a square house with two wings and planted grounds, while Wilson described Lord Lisle’s residence and extensive demesne in 1786. By the first Ordnance Survey map, the house was marked as ruined. The record identifies modern farm buildings at the site, rather than a surviving intact mansion. [2]
Children remembered at Kilgobban
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 parish account describes a burial place at Kilgobban, spelt Kilgubbin in his text, used for stillborn children. He recorded short graves with correspondingly small headstones in a planted enclosure. This is a dated description of a burial practice, not evidence for the cemetery’s foundation date. His classification of the enclosure as Danish reflects nineteenth-century antiquarian terminology and does not establish who built it. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyclogh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mountnorth Court, property 2801 · University of Galway, Landed Estates Database
- Ballyclough or Lavan, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837 · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.