Ballyguyroe

Ballyguyroe (Irish Baile an Ghaill Rua,Early anglicised forms of the name include Ballingillroe (1618), Ballygillroe (1624), Ballingyleroe (1739), Ballingeilroe otherwise Ballingiroagh (1788), Ballingeruoe (1811), Ballinguiroe (1831) and finally Ballyguyroo, Ballinguyrue, Ballingiroue (1840). The anglicised forms which would appear to best reflect the original Irish, Baile an Ghaill Rua ("the town of the red foreigner", from gall, genitive -an Ghaill) are Ballingyleroe (1739) and Ballingeilroe (1788). The l consonant disappears as a result of a linguistic phenomenon known as interconsonantal assimilation (not uncommon in early forms of placenames): l (of geil) + r (of roe) = r (geir) + r (roe). Pádraig Ó Dálaigh, Higher Placenames officer, Placenames Branch, Mespil Road, Dublin 4. Logainm.ie Town of the Red Foreigner/Frenchman/Norman. Spellings also in use: Ballinguyroe and Ballinguiroe. Pronounced locally as "Ballinguyroo"), North and South are rural townlands of FarahyLogainm.ie. Postal address Shanballymore (Geodirectory.ie), Geocodes: , PMDPK, QC4-SZ7. in the southern foothills of the Ballyhoura Mountains in north County Cork, Ireland.

The local economy is largely agriculture and forestry.

The area came into prominence as the proposed location by the Greenstar company for its planned dumpNoToTheDump.org - a proposal defeated by the locality at An Bord Pleanála in 2004 and 2008.

References

External links Griffith's Valuation Ballyguyroe North Griffith's Valuation Ballyguyroe South