Mayo Place name

[butlersearch]

HI

Does anyone recognise the place of birth noted on the top of this form.

Hope I  have attached it ok

[leprechaun]

Hello can see the problem you have. In Mayo there are many places starting Bally.
      Ok Try going to. www.leitrim-roscommon.com  just put in Mayo maybe it will help.
                                                     Lep

[Rhododendron]

Looks like Ballybank to me.

[Pennines]

Might it be Ballybuck? I have just googled Ballybuck, Mayo -- and there is such a place.

[conahy calling]

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=669182.0

link to earlier thread

[gaffy]

There is a townland called Bellaburke in the civil parish of Ballintober.  However, if you google the words  Ballyburke Mayo  you will see a number of hits come back for that same place, whether the use of Ballyburke is the result of mistranscription, misspelling, or simply a local naming variant, I don't know.

Here is Bellaburke in OSI's 6" mapping series of 1837 - 1842:

http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,509653,781563,5,7

So is it possibly Ballyburke (ie. Bellaburke)?

Edited to add: By way of example, in this record from the Tithe Applotment Books (compiled 1823 - 1837), you can see it shown as "Ballyburke" -

http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/reels/tab//004587403/004587403_00044.pdf

[butlersearch]

Hi

Thanks for all the info, I have looked at Ballybuck but that seems to me to be in Galway , Ballyburke looks very likely , but in another part of the papers I have it states he was born in the parish of castlebar, would that be the county town and ballyburke be within in.

This man is proving to be very elusive !

[gaffy]

... but in another part of the papers I have it states he was born in the parish of castlebar, would that be the county town and ballyburke be within in ...

No, simple as that.

[Gallagher-Doohan]

Hello,

If you go to Sean Ruad's Irish Atlas on www.thecore.com/seanruad/ and toggle only to Mayo in the county menu, it will bring up the names of all townlands in Mayo in alphabetical order.  See what the atlas brings up.