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An Port Nua
Ballymackeogh’s house records distinguish successive occupants from the wider acreage of the Ryan estate.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- An Port Nua · Irish · main form · validated name
- Newport · English · main form
Place & story
A house in the valuation records
The University of Galway’s Landed Estates survey records William Ryan at Ballymackeogh in 1814 and his son, also William, in 1837. The Ordnance Survey Name Books instead named Mr Hawkshaw as resident in 1840. At Griffith’s Valuation, William Ryan owned the property outright and its buildings were valued at £31. The Ryans remained there into the early twentieth century. [2]
The wider estate
In the 1870s William Ryan of Ballymackeogh owned 1,352 acres in County Tipperary. This figure describes his county estate rather than the house grounds alone. The university survey identifies archival material on the family, including eighteenth-century legal papers and a nineteenth-century genealogical report. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Newport. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballymackeogh, property 4636 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
- Ryan (Ballymackeogh), estate 2521 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.