Ballaghaderreen
{{Short description|Town in County Roscommon, Ireland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Use Irish English|date=January 2020}}
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|settlement_type = Town
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|image_caption = Businesses on the square in Ballaghaderreen
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|pushpin_map_caption = Location in Ireland
|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = Ireland
|subdivision_type1 = Province
|subdivision_name1 = Connacht
|subdivision_type3 = County
|subdivision_name3 = County Roscommon
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|population = 2387
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Ballaghaderreen ({{Irish place name|Bealach an Doirín|the way of the little oak grove}}{{cite web | url = http://www.logainm.ie/en/1416763 | title = Bealach an Doirín/Ballaghaderreen | work = Placenames Database of Ireland | publisher = Government of Ireland - Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Dublin City University | access-date = 28 March 2018}}) is a town in County Roscommon, Ireland. It was part of County Mayo prior to 1898.{{cite web |last1=McGarry |first1=Patsy |title=Ballaghaderreen a land of reluctant exiles |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ballaghaderreen-a-land-of-reluctant-exiles-1.1039675 |website=The Irish Times |access-date=16 August 2022 |language=en |date=18 August 2006}} It is in the north-west of the county, near the borders with counties Mayo and Sligo, just off the N5 road. The population was 2,387 in the 2022 census.
History
As of 1837, the town was recorded as having 1147 inhabitants in about 200 houses and as "rising in importance" as a post-town,{{cite web|title=BALLAGHADIREEN, a market and post-town|id=From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837|url=http://www.libraryireland.com:80/topog/B/Ballaghadireen-Costello-Mayo.php|access-date=16 April 2018|website=LibraryIreland|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905044136/http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/B/Ballaghadireen-Costello-Mayo.php|archive-date=5 September 2017}} being on the (then) new mail coach road from Ballina to Longford.
As of the mid-19th century, markets were held on Fridays, with seven fairs held throughout the year. A court-house, market house and an infantry barracks to accommodate 94 persons had all been established by that time.{{Cite web|url=https://www.swilson.info/wp/?page_id=2313|title=Market Towns in Ireland - 1865}}
In 1860, Ballaghaderreen Cathedral was dedicated as the cathedral for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Achonry.
In March 2017, Ballaghaderreen became an Emergency Reception and Orientation Centre (EROC) for hundreds of refugees from the Syrian Civil War.{{cite news |last=Towey |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/one-year-on-ballaghaderreen-and-refugees-let-down-by-state-1.3461087 |date=14 April 2018 |work=The Irish Times |title=One year on: Ballaghaderreen and refugees ‘let down’ by State |first=Niamh }} In April 2018, the community was honoured with a People of the Year Award for welcoming the refugees into the community.{{cite news |access-date=16 April 2018 |date=15 April 2018 |archive-date=16 April 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180416060701/https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/0415/954699-people-of-the-year/ |website=RTÉ.ie |title=Coast Guard and Catherine Corless honoured at People Of The Year awards |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/0415/954699-people-of-the-year/ }}
Governance
Ballaghadereen is part of the Barony of Costello and in the parish of Kilcoleman.
Ballaghaderreen has been part of County Roscommon since 1898 when the town and parish of Ballaghaderreen and Edmondstown were transferred from County Mayo under the Local Government Act 1898. (This has led to some anomalies; for example, the local Gaelic Athletic Association team is affiliated with the Mayo GAA county board.){{cn|date=January 2023}}
Sports
The local Gaelic football club is Ballaghaderreen GAA.{{cite web|url = https://www.ballaghaderreengaaclub.com/ | website = ballaghaderreengaaclub.com | title = Ballaghaderreen GAA Club | accessdate = 30 August 2021 | quote = Ballaghaderreen GAA club is a Gaelic Football club situated in East Mayo on the border of Mayo & Roscommon }} It is affiliated with the Mayo GAA county board.
Ballaghaderreen FC, the local association football (soccer) club, was founded in 1967.{{cite web|url = https://www.fai.ie/domestic/news/ballaghaderreen-fc-achieve-the-fai-club-mark | publisher = Football Association of Ireland | website = fai.ie | title = Ballaghaderreen FC achieve the FAI Club Mark | date = 5 March 2020 | accessdate = 30 August 2021 }}
Transport
Ballaghaderreen was previously located on the N5 national primary road linking Longford to Westport. However, the town was bypassed in September 2014 with the re-routing of the N5 to the north of the town.{{cite web | title = N5 Ballaghaderreen Bypass | work = NRA Road Scheme Activity | url = http://www.nra.ie/RoadSchemeActivity/RoscommonCountyCouncil/N5BallaghaderreenBypass/SchemeName,16454,en.html | access-date = 2013-07-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130507171406/http://www.nra.ie/RoadSchemeActivity/RoscommonCountyCouncil/N5BallaghaderreenBypass/SchemeName,16454,en.html | archive-date = 2013-05-07 | url-status = dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.tii.ie/news/press-releases/N5-Ballaghaderreen-Bypass-Opens/|title=N5 Ballaghaderreen Bypass Opens|access-date=16 April 2018|date=September 2017|website=Transport Infrastructure Ireland}}
The nearest railway stations are in Castlerea (21 km) and Boyle (26 km). Ballaghaderreen was previously served by the Ballaghaderreen branch line from Kilfree Junction, with Ballaghaderreen railway station having opened on 2 November 1874 and closed permanently on 4 February 1963.{{cite web | title= Ballaghaderreen station| work=Railscot - Irish Railways | url=http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | access-date=2012-07-26}} The station house remains standing, in a state of severe dereliction, just off Station Road.
Ballaghaderreen is on the main Dublin-Ballina bus route and there are several buses daily serving this route.Ireland West Airport is 15 km to the west.
People
{{See also|Category:People from Ballaghaderreen}}
- Anne Deane, nationalist, businesswoman and philanthropist{{cite book|last1=Clarke|first1=Frances|editor1-last=McGuire|editor1-first=James|editor2-last=Quinn|editor2-first=James|title=Dictionary of Irish Biography|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|chapter=Deane, Anne (Duff) | chapter-url = https://www.dib.ie/biography/deane-anne-duff-a2486 }}
- John Blake Dillon, writer, politician, and founding member of the Young Ireland movement{{cite book| last = O'Cathaoir | first = Brendan | title = John Blake Dillon, Young Irelander | pages = 5, 6 | publisher = Irish Academic Press | date = 1990 | isbn = 9780716524670 }}
- James Dillon, politician, leader of the opposition and leader of Fine Gael{{fact|date=May 2022}}
- Dermot Flanagan, Gaelic footballer{{cite web|url = https://www.mayonews.ie/living/33459-playing-to-a-new-crowd | website = mayonews.ie | title = Playing to a new crowd | date = 2019 | accessdate = 4 November 2022 }}
- Thomas Flynn, Bishop of Achonry{{cite web|url = http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bflynnth.html | title = Bishop Thomas Flynn | work = Catholic Hierarchy website | accessdate = 3 May 2022 }}
- Pearce Hanley, Australian Rules footballer{{cite web|url=https://www.aflq.com.au/queensland-clubs-celebrate-diversity/|title=Queensland clubs celebrate diversity|date=11 July 2013|first=Grant|last=Hitzman|publisher=AFL Queensland}}
- Garry Hynes, first female Tony Award winner for direction of a play{{cite web |url = https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22091870/| publisher = RTÉ | website = rte.ie | title = Garry Hynes - The Business | accessdate = 3 May 2022 }}
- Matt Molloy, Irish flute player{{cite web|url = https://www.mattmolloy.com/matt-molloy| website = mattmolloy.com | title = About Matt - Biography | accessdate = 4 November 2022 }}
- Andy Moran, Gaelic footballer{{cite news|url=http://www.the42.ie/andy-moran-mayo-roscommon-3525818-Aug2017/|title=Roscommon players and management condemn booing of Mayo forward Andy Moran last Sunday|last=O'Toole|first=Fintan|date=2 August 2017|work=The42.ie|access-date=2 August 2017}}
- Patsy McGarry Irish Times journalist{{cite web|url = https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/writer-hits-out-at-former-friend-mcgarry-over-his-role-as-phantom-tweeter-30201364.html | publisher = Independent News & Media | website = independent.ie | title = Writer hits out at former friend McGarry over his role as 'phantom tweeter' | first = Daniel | last = McConnell | date = 19 April 2014 | accessdate = 4 November 2022 }}
- Máire McDonnell-Garvey, traditional Irish musician{{cite web|url = https://www.dib.ie/biography/garvey-maire-mary-mcdonnell-a9710 | work = Dictionary of Irish Biography | title = Garvey, Máire (Mary) McDonnell | date = 2015 | accessdate = 3 May 2022 }}
- John O'Gorman, piper{{cite web| url = http://billhaneman.ie/IMM/IMM-XXII.html | work = Irish Pipers Of Distinction Living In The Early Years Of The Twentieth Century | title = Chapter XXII - John O' Gorman | first = Nicholas | last = Burke | accessdate = 3 May 2022 }}
- Brian O'Doherty, writer, artist, art critic and academicCiarán Benson (2011). [https://web.archive.org/web/20110603124735/http://www.drb.ie/more_details/11-03-17/No_Sad_Imperialist_of_the_Aesthetic_Self.aspx No sad imperialist of the aesthetic self]. The Dublin Review of Books 17 (Spring 2011). Archived 3 June 2014.
- William Partridge, trade unionist and revolutionary socialist{{cite news |last1=McNally |first1=Frank |title=Fanfare for Roscommon Man – An Irishman's Diary about the labour activist and 1916 rebel William Partridge |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fanfare-for-roscommon-man-an-irishman-s-diary-about-the-labour-activist-and-1916-rebel-william-partridge-1.3152596 |accessdate=10 June 2018 |work=The Irish Times |date=13 July 2017 |url-access=subscription}}
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Ballaghaderreen}}
- [http://www.ballaghaderreen.com Ballaghaderreen.com]
{{County Roscommon}}