placenamesBallintober
Baile an Tobair
Lewis’s 1837 description records how parts of the ruined abbey remained in religious use.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Tobair · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballintober · English · main form
Place & story
A ruined tower and a chapel in use
Samuel Lewis described Ballintober Abbey in 1837 with its principal tower fallen, but the supporting arch still standing to nearly fifty feet. He noted a pointed doorway with five columns on each side and recorded part of the remains being used as a Catholic chapel. His account captures the abbey before the later restoration campaigns, when surviving medieval stonework and continued worship occupied the same partially ruined complex. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Mayo
- Barony
- Carra
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Coordinates
- 53.75270, -9.36849
- Mapped area
- 89.9 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1758 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballintober. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballintobber, Mayo: 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.