placenamesBallygowan
The census distinguishes an earlier decline from the modest increase recorded by 1901.
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
Changes recorded in the county report
Ballygowan’s population fell from 143 in 1881 to ninety-four in 1891. The 1901 report carried forward a footnote attributing that earlier decrease to emigration and people moving away. By 1901 the total had risen to 109: sixty males and forty-nine females. The earlier explanation does not account for this later increase. [2]
The Scarva district townland
In 1901, twenty-two of Ballygowan’s twenty-six houses were inhabited and four were empty. Its census headings identify Aghaderg parish, the upper half of Upper Iveagh barony and Scarva electoral division within Banbridge Union. This locates a separate Ballygowan from the townlands of that name in Moira and Drumbeg. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Iveagh Upper, Upper Half
- Civil parish
- Aghaderg
- Coordinates
- 54.33705, -6.30777
- Mapped area
- 1.78 km²
- Logainm ID
- 66593 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballygowan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1901: County Down, page 14 and footnote (a); 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.