placenamesBalla
Balla’s community centre and woodland restoration record how local organisations created shared places for work, recreation and gatherings.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Balla · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Balla · English · main form
Place & story
A centre for local life
Balla Community Resources Development dates its establishment to 1996 and the official opening of its community centre to 2000. The organisation describes a building serving several generations: a hall and stage, meeting rooms and classrooms accommodate activities ranging from pipe-band practice and youth theatre to training courses. Its community kitchen also provides space for small food businesses and local family gatherings. [2]
Opening the old woods
Balla Town Park and Western Forestry Co-op began preparing their NeighbourWood application in spring 2015. The co-op’s account describes thirty-five acres of former estate woodland where spreading laurel had blocked access and inhibited natural regeneration. Removing it exposed older oaks and made room for further woodland management. The project included three thousand new trees, thinning crowded growth, improved paths, a rowan grove, and boxes for bats and owls. These were deliberate changes to an inherited wooded landscape. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Mayo
- Barony
- Clanmorris
- Civil parish
- Balla
- Coordinates
- 53.80374, -9.12642
- Mapped area
- 0.87 km²
- Logainm ID
- 35491 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Balla. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Balla Community Resource Development: About Us · Balla Community Resources Development
- Balla Town Park NeighbourWood Project, 2021 · Western Forestry Co-op
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.