History of Ballinrobe and Co. Mayo - Local History

We decided to include a variety of historical references and texts with information on Ballinrobe in this category for easy access.

We will also be adding titles of source material for your benefit over the next few months and would welcome any suggestions you may have at myhistoricalballinrobe@gmail.com

"Capture it before it disappears forever"

100 years ago - 1914 - 2014

Col. Maurice George Moore of Moorehall - Shoulder Arms and Defend your Country page 6

A description of Ballinrobe c. 1890 from Ireland (part II): East, West, and South including Dublin and Howth.

Extracts from two short passages on Ballinrobe, by a visitor, from a book published in London in 1888. It was written by Charles Slegg Ward, and edited by William Baxter) with maps by John Bartholomew 1831-1893. They describe Ballinrobe and its area:

Background to Emigration from Mayo in the 19th Century - from the South Mayo Family Research Society - Journal 1991 by Mr. Gerard M. Delaney

Re-issued by Averil Staunton with kind permission by Mr. Delaney

Ballinrobe and it Environs in the Pre-Famine Half-Century

Part 2 of 5 parts

Ballinrobe and its Environs in the Pre-Famine Half-Century

Part 1 of five parts extracted from The Bridge Magazine 1972

Ballinrobe and its Environs in the Pre-Famine Half-Century

Part 3 of 5 parts

Ballinrobe and Ordnance Survey information

Place name books

Ballinrobe Census 1901

Main Street

Ballinrobe History

Surnames found around Ballinrobe and Co. Mayo in 1890

Ballinrobe History 1837 - History 3

A descriptions of Ballinrobe taken from "A Topographic Dictionary of Ireland "by Samuel Lewis, written in 1837

Ballinrobe Local History

The Books of Survey and Distribution

Ballinrobe Local History: The Encumbered Estates Acts, 1848 and 1849

A valuable resource for family research

Ballinrobe Magazine

The Bridge - Ballinrobe Parish Magazine

Ballinrobe Workhouse and what it might have been like.

While the Workhouse in Ballinrobe has mostly been destroyed this clip gives an ideas of what life would have been like for those who had to avail of its services.