placenames1901 census
175People recorded
37Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
Explore the 1901 records ↗Ballingarry
Baile an Gharraí
Beside Glenbrohane, a sandstone monument and a sequence of maps preserve different traces of this townland’s past.
Recorded locationBallingarry52.38219° N · 8.37630° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
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 Gharraí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballingarry · English · main form
Place & story
A name cut into sandstone
Nora White’s official monument record describes a red sandstone ogham stone standing in a field beside Ballingarry House. It measures 1.47 metres in height and carries the inscription MAILAGNI MAQI GAMATI along an edge of its southern face. The record, uploaded in 2016, also points to a three-dimensional model made by University College Cork’s archaeology team. The inscription and physical stone can therefore be studied together. [2]
An earthwork through successive images
Fiona Rooney’s 2021 record follows an earthwork in Ballingarry from the 1840 map to later aerial photographs. The nineteenth-century maps show a raised, roughly circular area. More recent images record a tree-lined bank, a boundary cutting across its north-eastern side and, in 2018, a horse-lunging circle within it. The sequence shows how a recorded earthwork remained part of a working rural landscape. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Civil parish
- Ballingarry
- Coordinates
- 52.38219, -8.37630
- Mapped area
- 2.56 km²
- Logainm ID
- 30936 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
164People recorded
36Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Kiely 15
- Hayes 13
- Fenton 10
- Howard 10
- Lee 10
1926 census
176People recorded
33Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
Explore the 1926 records ↗Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballingarry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballingarry ogham stone, SMR LI049-112, record uploaded 16 September 2016 · Nora White, Archaeological Survey of Ireland
- Ballingarry earthwork, SMR LI049-100, record uploaded 11 October 2021 · Fiona Rooney, Archaeological Survey of Ireland
- 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.