placenamesBallyboy
Baile Átha Buí
A car-park project prompted archaeological checks near the castle and motte.
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 Átha Buí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballyboy · English · main form
Place & story
What the groundworks revealed
Archaeologist Denis Shine monitored a new car park at Ballyboy in April 2024, followed by drainage works in June. The development lay beside the recorded castle site, motte and medieval settlement. No archaeological deposits appeared within the monitored groundworks. Earlier testing in 2022 had found modern disturbance and a small cobbled area that might be nineteenth-century. These results concern the development footprint; they do not remove the significance of the neighbouring monuments. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyboy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- 2024:469 Ballyboy, Offaly, licence24E0287 · Denis Shine, Irish Heritage School for CRDS Ltd; Excavations.ie
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.