People and Places of Galway

Standard Name:

Ballysruille [Ballysruille changed to Ballysrule]

Irish Form of Name:

Baile Sruthfuil

Translation:

town of the stream

Civil Parish:

Lickmolassy
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Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:

Ballysruille [Ballysruille changed to Ballysrule]
Baile Sruthfuil
Ballyshrewel
Ballyshrewel Boundary Sketch Map
Ballyshrewel County Book
Ballyshrewel County Map
Ballyshrewel H. C. Survey & Val. Reports
Ballyshruell Inq. Temp. Gul. III
Ballysruell Inq. Temp. Gul. III
Ballyshanall Inq. Temp. Gul. III
Ballyshrewl Mr. George Bethel
Ballyshrewl Mr. Rush

Comment:

Compare with Sruille in Longford and Mayo

Description:

This townland is all arable and contains some farm houses, a grave yard, a few lime kilns and two small portions of furze.

Situation:

Bounded on the North by Drimscar, on the East by Gurteenpaddher and Clogernagh, on the West by the River which separates it from the townland of Killeen in the parish of Tynagh and in the South by Swanagh.

Information from the Ordnance Survey Letters:

The Ordnance Survey Letters are letters between John O'Donovan and his supervisor, Thomas Larcom, regarding the work of compiling the Field Books. These letters provide further discussion on many of the places listed in the Field Books.

References to this place can be found in the following letter.

Volume 2 page 71

Translation according to P. W. Joyce:

Ballyshrule in Galway : see [reproduced below] p. 5.

The preceeding letter changes are all legitimated, being "according to law". But in the process of anglicising Irish names there are many changes which are not legitimate, being against grammatical law; These will be found fully explained in vol. i. chap. Iii. ; but I will mention the most prevalent here. Nearly all of these occur in other languages as well as Irish and English. Interchange of l, r, n, m. - One of these letters is often substituted for another, for ease - or fancied ease of - pronunciation. … R to l. - Ballyshrule in Galway, should be anglicised Ballyshrure or Ballyshrura, for it is locally pronounced by the best authorities Baile-sruthra, the town of the stream. For "Sruthair", a stream, see vol. i. p. 457.

Area in Acres, Roods and Perches:

A.	R.	P.
223	1	1

Land value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:

£.	s.	d.
139	9	2

Building value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:

£.	s.	d.
6	7	0

Total value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:

£.	s.	d.
142	15	2

Heads of housholds living in the townland at this time:

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What is a townland?:

A townland is one of the smallest land divisions in Ireland. They range in size from a few acres to thousands of acres. Many are Gaelic in origin, but some came into existence after the Norman invasion of 1169

Townland:

Ballysruille [Ballysruille changed to Ballysrule] is a townland.

Original OS map of this area.
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Ireland was first mapped in the 1840s. These original maps are available online.
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Ballysruille [Ballysruille changed to Ballysrule]

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Ballysruille [Ballysruille changed to Ballysrule]

Information from the Down Survey Website.
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The Down Survey website will tell you who owned this townland in 1641 (pre Cromwell) and in 1671 (post Cromwell).

Down Survey Website
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Information from the National Monuments Service.
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List of townlands that share a border with this townland:

This is a list of townlands that share a border with this townland.

People who lived here:

You can retrieve a list of people who lived in this townland from 1827 to 1911. This list is compiled from the following resources.

The Tithe Applotment Books
Griffith's Valuation
1901 Census
1911 Census

List of nineteenth century and early twentieth century inhabitants of this townland.

Church records of births, deaths and marriages:

Church records of births, deaths and marriages are available online at http://www.rootsireland.ie. To search these records you will need to know the 'church parish' rather than the 'civil parish'. (The civil parish is the pre-reformation parish and was frequently used as a unit of administration in the past.)

Ballysruille [Ballysruille changed to Ballysrule] is in the civil parish of Lickmolassy.

Roman Catholic parishes:

This civil parish corresponds with the following Roman Catholic parish or parishes.

Kilmalinoge and Lickmolassy (Portumna)

Church of Ireland parishes:

This civil parish corresponds with the following Church of Ireland parish.

Lickmolassy

In general, the civil parish and the Church of Ireland parish are the same, but, this is not always the case.

Information from the Logainm database.
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Information about Ballysruille [Ballysruille changed to Ballysrule]

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

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Information From Griffith's Valution

Townland Information

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Neighbouring Townlands

Population and Census Information

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