placenames1901 census
No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Balloo
The original census tables distinguish this east Antrim townland from the other places named Balloo.
Recorded locationBalloo54.81512° N · 5.69907° 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
- Balloo · English · main form
Place & story
A population recorded over three censuses
In 1901, Balloo in Island Magee parish contained sixty-three people: thirty-one male and thirty-two female. The census recorded eighteen houses, seventeen inhabited and one empty. Its comparative columns give seventy-nine residents in 1891 and eighty-five in 1881, while the house total remained eighteen throughout. These figures describe a shrinking recorded population within a stable number of houses. The table places this Balloo in Larne Union, Island Magee electoral division and Belfast Lower barony, establishing which community the figures concern. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Belfast Lower
- Civil parish
- Island Magee
- Coordinates
- 54.81512, -5.69907
- Mapped area
- 1.47 km²
- Logainm ID
- 61616 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
61People recorded
16Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Hawthorn 10
- Esler 8
- Donaldson 6
- Browne 5
- Holmes 4
1926 census
This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Balloo. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1901: County Antrim, page 45; published 1902 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Cahill and Company, Dublin
- 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.