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Ballygar
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Place details
- Region
- Connacht
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 1,345
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.name
- Ballygar
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Spacer.gif
- Settlement.imagesize
- 1px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ireland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ireland
- Settlement.blank_name_sec1
- Irish Grid Reference
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 66
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Connacht
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Galway
- Settlement.population_total
- 660
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- townland
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Elevation
- 66
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
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- Irish Grid Reference
- M790518
- historic county
- County Galway
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Name and origins
- Ballygar Castle
- A Market Town - 1840
- Killeroran Graveyard and other developments
- Bagott family
- The Great Famine (An Gorta Mór)
- 1860 to 1890
- Amenities
- Economy and culture
- Notable residents
- Townlands
- References
Ballygar () is a village in County Galway, Ireland. It is 19 km from Roscommon town.
== History == ===Name and origins=== The name Ballygar, historically Beallagarr, comes from . The settlement has been a meeting point of the McDermott clan and trading centre throughout the centuries and was recorded as a townland and farm as far back as 1585.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ballygar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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