placenames1901 census
No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Ballyboley
The county census report offers a dated picture of this Ards townland and its homes.
Recorded locationBallyboley54.55992° N · 5.56932° 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
- Ballyboley · English · main form
Place & story
Residents and houses
The 1926 census placed Ballyboley in Grey Abbey district electoral division within Newtownards Rural District. It recorded 172 residents, comprising eighty-two males and ninety females, compared with 179 people in 1911. There were thirty-nine houses in 1926: thirty-seven inhabited and two uninhabited. The same table returned thirty-seven private families occupying 169 rooms. These figures describe the townland at that census; they do not explain why its population changed. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Ards Lower
- Civil parish
- Greyabbey
- Coordinates
- 54.55992, -5.56932
- Mapped area
- 3.15 km²
- Logainm ID
- 65830 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
179People recorded
38Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- McKeag 28
- Hamilton 20
- Dalzell 9
- Edgar 9
- Shanks 9
1926 census
This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyboley. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Northern Ireland 1926: County of Down, table 3, page 33; published 1928 · H.M. Stationery Office, on behalf of the Government of Northern Ireland
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Mountstewart Road at Ballyboley crossroads, County Down illustration: based on a The Mountstewart Road, Ballyboley near Carrowdore by Albert Bridge. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.