Ballard townlands Dunganstown civil parish county Wicklow

Surnames/tags: Ballard Dunganstown Wicklow

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Ballard Upper [214 acres] and Ballard Lower [63 acres] are 2 small townlands in the civil parish of Dunganstown in county Wicklow, Arklow barony. - They are in Rathdrum Poor Law Union, Rathdrum registration district and Dunganstown South electoral division.:

Category: Ballard Upper Townland, Dunganstown Parish, County Wicklow

Category: Ballard Lower Townland, Dunganstown Parish, County Wicklow

Category: Barndarrig Catholic Chapel, Wicklow

The Down Survey ^[1] 1641 owners: Byrne, Bryan McMurrough (Catholic) 1670 owners: MontgomeryHugh Earl of Mount Alexander (Protestant)

Tithe Applotment Books compiled between 1823 and 1837 in order to determine the amount which occupiers of agricultural holdings over one acre should pay in tithes to the Church of Ireland. ^[2]

John Byrne 85 acres

Walter Fortune 1 acre

widow Hetherington 11 acres

Patrick Smith 6 acres

James Redmond 25 acres

Daniel Kavanagh 1 acre

widow Castles 2 acres

Andrew Grant 36 acres

Thomas Elliott 1 acre

Miss Byrne Wood 3 acres

The primary landowner is Clarinda Mary Byrne daughter of Robert & Mary (Devereux) Byrne.

Contents 1 Ballard Lower 2 Ballard Upper 3 Rathdrum 4 Sources

Ballard Lower

1901 census has only 6 homes with 31 people in 7 families - 1901 Census

1911 census has only 7 homes with 41 people in 11 families - 1911 Census

Griffith's valuation at askaboutireland.ie ^[3]

entry	occupier	lease from	description	land area	land value	building value
1a	William Grant	Clorinda Byrne	house offices and land	52 acres 3 roods 28 perches	£ 36 - 0 - 0	£ 2 - 5 shilling
1b	Eliza Murphy	William Grant	house and garden	0-0-12	1 shilling	5 shilling
1c	John Stanton	same	house and garden	1-0-20	10 shilling	10 shilling
1d	Hugh Murphy	same	house and garden	0-1-20	4 shilling	16 shilling
1e	Charles Murray	same	house and garden	0-0-36	5 shilling	£ 1 - 15 shilling
1f	Ellen Doyle	same	house			£ 1 - 5 shilling
1g	Sarah Timmins	Ellen Doyle	house			5 shilling
1h	Myles Byrne	same	house, forge & garden	0-0-25	0-3-0	15 shilling
1i	Andrew Bourke	William Grant	office and garden	0-0-30	0-3-0	5 shilling
1j	James Stephens	same	house			10 shilling
1k	Judith Ryan	same	house and garden	0-0-24	0-3-0	5 shilling
2	Timothy Castle	same	house, offices and land	3-1-4	£ 2 - 10 shilling	£ 1 - 5 shilling
3	Clorinda Byrne	In fee	land (plantation)	4-3-33	£ 1 - 15 shilling

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Griffith's House book 3 Dec 1852 has it written as Baliard Lower, Dunganstown, Arklow barony ^{[4] [5]}

1a - William Grant

1b - Eliza Murphy

1c - John Staunton

1d - Hugh Murphy

1e - Charles Murray

1f - Ellen Doyle

1g - Sarah Timmins

1h - Myles Byrne

1i - Andrew Burke

1j - James Stephens

1k - Judith Ryder

2 - Timothy Castle

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Ballard Lower census statistics^[6]

year	houses	inhabited	uninhabited	total	population	male	female	total	valuation
1841		13	1	14		31	42	73
1851		11	1	12		33	31	64
1861				10				46
1871				10				39
1881				8				33
1891				7		21	10	31	50 £ 10 s.

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Ballard Upper

Griffith's valuation at askaboutireland.ie ^[7]

1a - John Byrne

1b - vacant

2 - James Hetherington

3 - James M'Donnell

4a - Thomas Stanton

4b - John Howard

5 - James Redmond

6a - John Torney

6b - John Richardson

6c - James Ryder

7 - Timothy Castle

Griffith's House book 3 Dec 1852 has it spelled Baliard Upper, Dunganstown, Arklow barony ^[8]

1a - John Byrne

2 - James Hetherington

3 - James McDonnell

4a - Thomas Stanton

4b - John Howard

5 - James Redmond

6a - John Turney

6b - John Richardson

6c - James Ryder

Griffith's Field field book 31 Aug 1841

Nicholas Byrne http://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/vob/IRE_CENSUS_1821-51_007250615_00207.pdf

Griffith's House book BALLARD Lower 15 May 1843

Nicholas Byrne, John Byrne, formerly Bryan Kelly

Ballard Upper census statistics^[9]

year	houses	inhabited	uninhabited	total	population	male	female	total	valuation
1841		9	0	9		31	25	56
1851		12	0	12		33	20	53
1861				11				68
1871				11				50
1881				10				53
1891				10		31	26	57	165 £ 5 s.

1901 census has only 10 homes with 59 people in 13 families - 1901 Census

1911 census has only 9 homes with 43 people in 12 families - 1911 Census

Rathdrum

Rathdrum Workhouse Admission & Discharge Registers 1842-1914 digitized records https://www.wicklow.ie/Living/Services/Arts-Heritage-Archives/Archives/Collections/Digitised-Collections/Wicklow-Workhouse-Records

review of Rathdrum Workhouse Admission & Discharge Registers https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wicklowpeople/lifestyle/survival-in-wicklow-fascinating-records-of-workhouses-37401962.html]

Sources

1. ↑ http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/landowners.php#mc=52.926717,-6.128129&z=14
2. ↑ http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/reels/tab//004587436/004587436_00048.pdf
3. ↑ http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doPlaceSearch&Submit.x=31&Submit.y=10&Submit&freetext=Ballard,%20Lower&countyname=Wicklow&baronyname=&unionname=&parishname=Dunganstown
4. ↑ http://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/vob/IRE_CENSUS_1821-51_007246835_00891.pdf
5. ↑ http://census.nationalarchives.ie/search/vob/results.jsp?surname=&firstname=&year_from=&year_to=&dd_dd=&dd_mm=&dd_yyyy=&book=&county=wicklow&barony=&parish=&townland=baliard+lower&last_name_other_or_lessor=&first_name_other_or_lessor=&search=Search
6. ↑ http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/AssociatedPageBrowser?path=Browse&active=yes&mno=381&tocstate=expandnew&display=sections&display=tables&display=pagetitles&pageseq=5&zoom=5&assoctitle=Census%20of%20Ireland,%201851
7. ↑ http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doPlaceSearch&Submit.x=31&Submit.y=10&Submit&freetext=Ballard,%20Upper&countyname=Wicklow&baronyname=&unionname=&parishname=Dunganstown
8. ↑ http://census.nationalarchives.ie/search/vob/results.jsp?surname=&firstname=&year_from=&year_to=&dd_dd=&dd_mm=&dd_yyyy=&book=&county=wicklow&barony=&parish=&townland=baliard+upper&last_name_other_or_lessor=&first_name_other_or_lessor=&search=Search
9. ↑ http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/AssociatedPageBrowser?path=Browse&active=yes&mno=381&tocstate=expandnew&display=sections&display=tables&display=pagetitles&pageseq=5&zoom=5&assoctitle=Census%20of%20Ireland,%201851

See also:

• 1891 census of Ireland, p 1097 https://archive.org/details/op1252691-1001/page/1097/mode/1up?view=theater