Talk:Ballina, County Mayo

New South Wales

Info on Ballina, NSW, moved to Ballina, New South Wales -- Picapica 10:21, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Other Ballinas

There is another Ballina in Ireland, in County Tipperary. In Lough Derg article i fixed the link in Ballina, Tipperary. Maybe a link here too? Kanchelskis

WestNet

I've removed the reference to WestNet broadband; WestNet do not, in fact, provide wireless broadband in Ballina, being primarily in the business of delivering broadband to rural areas. -- Paul Cunnane, 2006-10-25

Misc

Béal an Átha versus Béal Átha an Fheadha and its translation

Béal an Átha is probably the most used and more modern version of Ballina. On it's own it means Mouth of the Ford (crossing point at the mouth of the Moy) Áth described here.

I would argue that Béal Átha an Fheadha is less used, and less well known. Fheadha describes a wooded area as seen in these pages, which is not quite a fort. Yes, forts have been used to describe small forests or woods, but the intent here is to describe the land surrounding the ford, not to replace "ford" with "fort".

As such, Ballina would be Mouth of the Woodland Ford. --Milesoneill (talk) 11:09, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

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--- Part of what is now the town was once was part of County Sligo, with the border for the most part once being the River Moy, east of which was in Sligo, including Ardnaree, and Crockets Town (the Quay).

Yes but when (and why) were the borders changed ? 213.40.112.15 (talk) 22:19, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi, good question, and I think I've found the answer: the link below has information on when and why the borders were changed and it probably should be given a mention in the main article. I'll get round to it shortly, or perhaps you would like to make the edits yourself? http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlsli/borders.html --Milesoneill (talk) 14:05, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

The local government act of 1898 Changed some of Irelands county borders. 109.146.17.237 (talk) 13:19, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Street names

When were the street names in Ballina officially changed? A lot of older residents still use the old street names like Arran (Tone) King (O Rahilly) Knox (Pearse) Bridge (Tolan) Hill (James Connolly) street etc Even the An Post website [1] gives the address of Ballina Post office as "King Street". The Post office (of all people) don't know their own address -Only in Ireland 94.0.215.193 (talk) 23:00, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

"Convent Hill" (Mc Dermott St) was another one. Meanwhile the Post Office seem to have updated their website and the address is now given as "Casement Street". 2A00:23C4:CAB:7900:397E:3956:F1B7:88A6 (talk) 10:33, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

According to this [2] page it was 1924 although it took a long time for the new names to "catch on". The pre-independence names were still in common usage among older residents even in the 1980's. 2A00:23C6:7F93:1A00:2D8A:5028:DB27:BB41 (talk) 22:41, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

The Post office (of all people) don't know their own address -Only in Ireland Its not just a Ballina problem to be fair Look at Wexford [3] ! 2A00:23C6:7F8A:BB00:9CA5:8473:E982:D27A (talk) 21:28, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

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Joe Biden

Ballina is apparently an ancestral home of Joe Biden... his family left for Scranton, Pennsylvania as recently as the 1800s, and he has relatively close cousins living there. I'll try to find reputable documentation. PurpleChez (talk) 20:59, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 July 2023

Conrad Sweeney- Showjumper 51.37.197.245 (talk) 02:56, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 06:01, 22 July 2023 (UTC)