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Ballymoe

Village in County Galway, Ireland

Field	Value
name	Ballymoe
native_name	Béal Átha Mó
native_name_lang	ga
settlement_type	Village
image_skyline	IMG Ballymoef.jpg
pushpin_map	Ireland
pushpin_label_position	right
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Ireland
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Ireland
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Connacht
subdivision_type3	County
subdivision_name3	County Galway
unit_pref	Metric
population_as_of	2002
population_density_km2	auto
timezone1	WET
utc_offset1	+0
timezone1_DST	IST (WEST)
utc_offset1_DST	-1
coordinates
elevation_m	80
blank_name	Irish Grid Reference
blank_info

Ballymoe (historically Bellamoe, from ) is a village in County Galway, Ireland. Ballymoe is situated on the western side of the River Suck that separates counties Galway and Roscommon. The N60 national secondary road meets the R360 regional road in the centre of the village.

History

The name Béal Átha Mó is derived from a fort which was built by Meabh of Connacht, under the order of Mogh. The fort and village would later become known as Átha Mogh Mór and Béal Átha Mogh. The town is now the centre of a small rural area involved in scale mixed farming. Raised bogs, forts and a mass rock from penal times are features of Ballymoe today.

People

Éamonn Ceannt, one of the leaders of the Easter Rising and signatory to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic was born in the police barracks in Ballymoe where his father James Kent, an officer in the Royal Irish Constabulary was stationed. The Garda Síochána barracks in the town today is named in his honour.
Fr. Edward J. Flanagan, founder of Boys Town, Nebraska, was born here
Thomas Charles Beirne, Australian businessman, politician and philanthropist, was born nearby.
James Daly, executed in 1920 for his role in the Connaught Rangers mutiny in India, was born in Ballymoe in 1899.

References

[http://www.logainm.ie/18905.aspx Placenames Database of Ireland] (see archival records)
link. (29 October 2006)
[http://www.nli.ie/1916/1916_main.html National Library of Ireland – 1916 Exhibition] {{webarchive. link. (16 September 2011 ,)
[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/beirne-thomas-charles-5186 Biography of Berine]

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