placenamesBallyroan
Baile an Ruáin
The original census identifies this Ballyroan in Straboe parish, apart from the village near Abbeyleix.
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 an Ruáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballyroan · English · main form
Place & story
The Maryborough Rural entry
Ballyroan in Straboe parish had twenty-nine residents in 1911: fourteen males and fifteen females. Nine houses were recorded, with eight inhabited and one empty. The original Queen’s County report places it in Maryborough Rural electoral division, within Mountmellick Union. Its comparative columns give thirty-four residents in seven houses in 1891 and thirty-three residents in eight houses in 1901. These figures concern the townland beside Kilminchy and Beladd, rather than Ballyroan village in Cullenagh barony. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Maryborough East
- Civil parish
- Straboe
- Coordinates
- 53.04337, -7.27785
- Mapped area
- 0.67 km²
- Logainm ID
- 28618 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyroan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1911: Queen’s County, Table VII, page 30 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by the Athlone Printing Works Company, Limited, 1912
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.