placenamesBekan
Béacán
Ballinvilla’s documentary record and a Brackloon gathering preserve different kinds of memory across the civil parish.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Béacán · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Bekan · English · main form
Place & story
Ballinvilla in the valuation record
Ballinvilla was a nineteenth-century Crean family home in Bekan parish. University of Galway’s property catalogue records Austin F. Crean holding it outright at Griffith’s Valuation, when the house was valued at £7. The house itself no longer survives. [2]
Brackloon’s gathering in 2013
Mary Finan’s account in Annagh records former Brackloon residents returning for a school and district reunion in August 2013. Its tour included Bekan Church and graveyard, reflecting older parish connections. At Brackloon North, a Mass and new commemorative stone remembered infants and others buried at the Caldragh. Visitors also saw murals at the old school and the restored ball alley. The weekend launched a district history, linking the gathering with an effort to preserve local records and photographs. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Bekan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- BallinvillaMayo:property99 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
- BrackloonSchoolandDistrictReunion,Annagh2013pp12–13 · Mary Finan, Annagh magazine
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.