placenamesBallygowan
The original county report distinguishes this townland from the larger Ballygowan village farther east.
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
- Ballygowan · English · main form
Place & story
People and accommodation
In 1901, this Ballygowan contained fifty-seven people: twenty-seven males and thirty females. Of fourteen houses, thirteen were inhabited and one was empty. The comparative columns record fifty-one residents in 1891 and forty-nine in 1881, with nine and ten houses respectively. The table identifies the townland within Drumbeg parish and electoral division, in the Down portion of Lisburn Union. These figures describe this particular Ballygowan, rather than the better-known village near Comber. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Castlereagh Upper
- Civil parish
- Drumbeg
- Coordinates
- 54.52936, -5.97942
- Mapped area
- 0.78 km²
- Logainm ID
- 66128 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballygowan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1901: County Down, page 35; published 1902 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Cahill & Company
- 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 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.