Do you know who occupied the various houses and
buildings? Test you knowledge. Then check below where the
indices are matched with the occupiers. Bíodh spórt agat.
Eighteen of the
twenty-six occupied houses are now in different ownership. There were
about eighty residents in the village in the forties. Nine of
these residents still live in the village, five of the nine being in their
original houses. Fifty seven of the residents are deceased, beannacht
Dé lena n-anamacha.
The village was then a much smaller place than it
is to-day - there were no houses on the Inchigeela side of Tigh na mBan, no
houses west of Dún Lua and no houses beyond Siopa Uí Chríodáin (No. 22).
Neither were there any factories.
Donnchadh ó Luasaigh,
Baile an Chollaigh.
(Sketch Map of 'Ballingeary Village'
to go in here. -not available yet.)
