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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, Barndarrig, County 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]
The primary landowner is Clarinda Mary Byrne daughter of Robert & Mary (Devereux) Byrne.
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Ballard Lower
| 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 |
| 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. |
Ballard Upper
Griffith's valuation at askaboutireland.ie [7]
Griffith's House book 3 Dec 1852 has it spelled Baliard Upper, Dunganstown, Arklow barony [8]
Griffith's Field field book 31 Aug 1841
Griffith's House book BALLARD Lower 15 May 1843
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
- ↑ http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/landowners.php#mc=52.926717,-6.128129&z=14
- ↑ http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/reels/tab//004587436/004587436_00048.pdf
- ↑ 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
- ↑ http://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/vob/IRE_CENSUS_1821-51_007246835_00891.pdf
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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