placenamesBallymackey
Baile Uí Mhacaí
Estate research connects the house at Killowney Big with Willington and Langford residents.
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 Uí Mhacaí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballymackey · English · main form
Place & story
A house in valuation and family records
Castle Willington in Killowney Big belongs to Ballymackey parish. The University of Galway’s Landed Estates research identifies James Willington as holding the property in fee at Griffith’s Valuation, when its value exceeded £38. In 1906 Alice C. Langford occupied the house, then valued at £20. She was John Willington’s daughter and had married Charles C. Coplen Langford in 1877. The record distinguishes the earlier holder from the later resident, while tracing a family connection between the two surnames associated with the house. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Upper
- Coordinates
- 52.86906, -8.06945
- Mapped area
- 39.31 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2229 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballymackey. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castle Willington: Landed Estates property4388 · University of Galway, Landed Estates Database
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.