Ballintober,_County_Roscommon

Ballintober, County Roscommon

Ballintober, County Roscommon

Village in Connacht, Ireland

Not to be confused with Ballintubber, County Mayo.

Ballintober (Irish: Baile an Tobair, meaning "settlement of the well")[2] is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is 6 kilometers from the town of Castlerea. As of the 2016 census, Ballintober had a population of 300 people.[1]

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On the outskirts of the village are the remains of an early 14th century stone castle first mentioned in writing in 1311.[3] It is not recorded who built Ballintober Castle, but it is generally associated with the O'Conor family who ruled Connaught for several centuries.[3]

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  1. [1]
    "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Ballintober". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. April 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Baile an Tobair / Ballintober". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  3. [3]
    "Ballintober Castle County Roscommon" (PDF). roscommoncoco.ie. Roscommon County Council. Retrieved 7 March 2020. Ballintober is a privately owned castle under the care of its ancestral occupants, the O'Conors of Connacht [..] The castle was built at the very start of the 14th century [..] The first reference to Ballintober is [in 1311] when a mercenary killed a Gruelach/warrior, and was himself killed
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