placenamesBalleen
Baile Uí Eidhin
A nineteenth-century journal described the castle’s surviving stairs, floors and windows.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Baile Uí Eidhin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Balleen · English · main form
Place & story
An account of the ruined castle
The Illustrated Dublin Journal described two surviving towers at Balleen Castle in its issue of 5 April 1862. The north-west tower contained four floors, including an arched one, with fireplaces and a stone staircase already badly damaged. The other tower retained windows divided by stone mullions and transoms, and the writer recorded the date 1455 above one window. These are observations from the nineteenth-century account, rather than a statement of the ruins’ present condition or proof that every part of the castle was built in that year. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Balleen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Balleen Castle: The Illustrated Dublin Journal, Vol1 No31, 5 April 1862 · The Illustrated Dublin Journal
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.