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Title: Mayo Place name
Post by: butlersearch on Friday 01 August 14 14:18 BST (UK)
HI

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

Hope I  have attached it ok



Title: Re: Mayo Place name
Post by: leprechaun on Friday 01 August 14 15:50 BST (UK)
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 :)
Title: Re: Mayo Place name
Post by: Rhododendron on Friday 01 August 14 16:37 BST (UK)
Looks like Ballybank to me.
Title: Re: Mayo Place name
Post by: Pennines on Friday 01 August 14 16:48 BST (UK)
Might it be Ballybuck? I have just googled Ballybuck, Mayo -- and there is such a place.
Title: Re: Mayo Place name
Post by: conahy calling on Friday 01 August 14 18:59 BST (UK)
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=669182.0

link to earlier thread
Title: Re: Mayo Place name
Post by: gaffy on Saturday 02 August 14 06:28 BST (UK)
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
Title: Re: Mayo Place name
Post by: butlersearch on Saturday 02 August 14 10:33 BST (UK)
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 !
Title: Re: Mayo Place name
Post by: gaffy on Saturday 02 August 14 11:29 BST (UK)
Quote from: butlersearch on Saturday 02 August 14 10:33 BST (UK)

... 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.
Title: Re: Mayo Place name
Post by: Gallagher-Doohan on Wednesday 29 October 14 00:51 GMT (UK)
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. 
Title: Re: Mayo Place name
Post by: butlersearch on Wednesday 29 October 14 12:23 GMT (UK)
Hi

Thank you for that I haven't looked at this for a while as sometimes I think it better to put to one side and look at later with fresh eyes.  I am leaning towards ballyburke as suggested previously and is also known as bellaburke, I am not sure if this will give me any more clues to Thomas Butler , but it has certainly revived my quest to carry on searching.

Many thanks to all