Ballinlough, County Roscommon

Ballinlough Baile an Locha
Village
Ballinlough Main Street (N60 road)
Ballinlough Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°44′30″N 8°38′01″W
Country	Ireland
Province	Connacht
County	County Roscommon
Population  (2016)[1]	300
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Ballinlough (/ˌbælɪnˈlɒx/ BAL-in-LOKH; Irish: Baile an Locha, meaning 'town of the lake')[2] is a village in western County Roscommon, Ireland. The N60 national secondary road passes through it. The village is between Ballyhaunis and Castlerea on the Roscommon to Castlebar road. As of the 2016 census, Ballinlough had a population of 300 people.[1]

Lake O'Flynn, which lies north of the village, is notable for brown trout fishing.[3] The lake is also the source of the River Suck (which is a tributary of the River Shannon). In 2013, a bog walk was constructed around Lake O'Flynn, together with an outdoor gym.^[citation needed]

Notable people

• Andreas O'Reilly von Ballinlough (1742–1832), a military commander in the service of the Austrian Empire, was born in the village.[4]

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland

References

1. "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Ballinlough". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. April 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
2. "Baile an Locha / Ballinlough". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
3. "Lough O'Flynn, Co. Roscommon". fishinginireland.info. Inland Fisheries Ireland. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
4. Leopold Kudrna; Digby Smith. "O'Reilly von Ballinlough, Andreas Graf". Biographical Dictionary of Austrian Generals during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Retrieved 7 March 2020.