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Ballynaleck

The original Armagh census records this townland in Ballymore parish and Orior Lower barony.

Recorded locationBallynaleck54.28267° N · 6.41182° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

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

  • Ballynaleck · English · main form

Place & story

Fifteen inhabited houses in 1911

Ballynaleck had sixty-eight residents at the 1911 census: thirty-six males and thirty-two females. Eighteen houses were recorded, with fifteen inhabited and three empty. The report places the townland in Poyntz Pass electoral division, within the Armagh portion of Newry Union. Its comparative columns give eighty-six residents and twenty-two houses in 1891, followed by seventy-three residents and nineteen houses in 1901. These figures record change without identifying its causes. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Armagh
Civil parish
Ballymore
Coordinates
54.28267, -6.41182
Mapped area
1.33 km²
Logainm ID
56780 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1901 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

1926 census

This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Ballynaleck. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Armagh, Table VII, page 31 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Alexander Thom & Co., Limited, 1912
  3. 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 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.