Residence place: Ballacha Scurrien

[sbrown1264]

Hi

Can anyone explain the above to me. It was sent to me via a kind helper who said it was listed on ancestry. Baptism place is Macron.

Is Ballacha Scurrien a name of a house/farm a area? or any other info gratefully accepted.

Regards
Stephen
 

[Sinann]

Do you mean Macroon Parish.
Could you give us the name and date so we can look at the original image, if it RC that is.
http://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0077

Townlands in Macroom Civil Parish.
https://www.johngrenham.com/c_parish/c_parish_main.php?civilparishid=191&county=&civilparish=Macroom

[sbrown1264]

Hi

John Griffin baptism 26/09/1813
baptism place Macroom, Cork
Residence place: Ballacha Scurrien
Diocese Cloyne

I wanted to know if  Ballacha Scurrien is a place name, name of a farm or whatever?

Regards

Stephen

[Sinann]

I can see it now bottom of right hand page
http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634674#page/55/mode/1up
Now just need to have a good look at it

[Sinann]

Ballach a S?
It's at the bottom of the next page as well.
Haven't quite got a handle on it yet.

[Sinann]

I'm just wondering if it might be an Irish spelling of a townland.
Tough one.
Sometimes names fall out of use, which is also a possibility, they can be very hard to find.

[Sinann]

I'm getting no where with this, sorry.

[gaffy]

I wonder if the following more recent references to a placename in the town of Macroom are a possibility.

From the Cork Constitution of March 1895: '... FOUND DEAD IN MACROOM - Yesterday an old woman, aged about 80 years, was found dead in a wretched outhouse in Ballaghascreen ...'.

Also the following reference about the town of Macroom at the link below: 'The town had two handball alleys, one in Masseytown and another at Ballaghascreen, Cork Street.'

http://macroom.ie/news/lee-valley-outlook-archive-2016/352-lee-valley-outlook-march-15-2016-v13e6

Edited to add: You can also see the same Cork Constitution story in an article in this NZ extract (however, the old woman's death certificate places death at Down Street, Macroom):

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZT18950607.2.43

[gaffy]

There are several more references to this place in the Macroom register from the early 1800s, I'm seeing the clearer ones as 'Ballachascrureen', I'm warming to the read-across to the area in the town of Macroom referenced above as 'Ballaghascreen'.