Ballynacarrow
Ballynacarrow, locally Ballinacarrow (Irish: Baile na Cora), is a village in County Sligo, Ireland. It is located approximately 19 kilometres (12 mi) south-west of Sligo town. The Temple House estate is south of the village.
Ballynacarrow was designated as a census town by the Central Statistics Office for the first time in the 2016 census, at which time it had a population of 202 people.
Transport
Ballynacarrow is on the N17 Galway to Collooney road. The village is a stop on the Bus Éireann Galway to Derry Expressway route 64.
Notable people
The Irish-American orator and politician Bourke Cockran was born in Ballynacarrow in 1854.
See also
References
- ^ "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Ballinacarrow". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. April 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- ^ "Baile na Cora/Ballynacarrow". Placenames Database of Ireland. Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Dublin City University. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- ^ "Census of Population 2016 - Profile 2 Population Distribution and Movement". cso.ie. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
26 new census towns were created for the 2016 Census [..including..] Ballynacarrow
- ^ "Expressway 64" (PDF). Bus Éireann. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- ^ John C. McTernan (1965). Historic Sligo. Sligo: Yeats Country Publications. pp. 12, 101. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
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