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Recorded forms
Baile an Londraigh· Irish · main form · validated name
Ballylanders· English · main form
Place & story
A village described in 1837
Samuel Lewis described Ballylanders in 1837 as a comparatively modern village of stone houses with slate roofs. He counted 281 inhabitants in the village, distinct from the much larger parish population. A constabulary station, Catholic chapel, dispensary and three fee-paying schools served the community and its surrounding countryside. Lewis's account places the village within the Earl of Kingston's estate and describes productive arable land, recording an agricultural settlement with a developing concentration of public services.[2]
The former Church of Ireland building
The roofless former Church of Ireland church was built in 1861 to designs by Welland and Gillespie. Its unusual broad tower originated in an unfinished tower-house project for the Earls of Kingston; conversion added a church nave. Sandstone walls, limestone detailing and the family's crests survive. The bilingual plaque carries a Christian message of peace and goodwill. These features distinguish the building's documented architectural history from more elaborate local explanations for why it was never completed as a castle.[3]
People & connections
The Crowley brothers in 1920
John and Peter Crowley were arrested in Ballylanders during a military roundup in July 1920. Their father and brother Michael were also detained; their father was released and Michael was later deported. John, a senior Limerick footballer, and Peter were taken to Cork Prison and became two of the nine survivors of its 1920 hunger strike. Cork Public Museum records their part in that episode, giving the village a direct personal connection to a major prison protest of the War of Independence.[4]
The Galtee Battalion memorial
A memorial erected in 1955 stands at a Ballylanders crossroads. A carved marble figure rises above a tapering limestone pedestal with relief plaques and a cross motif. Its inscriptions in Irish and English commemorate officers and men of the Galtee Battalion during the years 1916–1921. The combination of religious sculpture and named military commemoration makes it a public expression of how the revolutionary period was remembered locally a generation later.[5]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Ballylanders — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
Ballylanders, Limerick — Census town, CSO 2006 report
2002–2006: census town
319people · 2006
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Ballylanders, Limerick — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
Ballylanders, Limerick — Census town, CSO 1996 report
1991–1996: census town
318people · 1996
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Ballylanders, Limerick — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Ballylanders, Limerick — Census town, CSO 1986 report
1981–1986: census town
343people · 1986
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
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Ballylanders, Limerick — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Ballylanders, Limerick
Published census settlement populations
308people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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