Ballintate, County Armagh

Background

The two references to the townland in 1609, Ballintate and Antaly, reveal that the area was knownsimply by the name of a land unit found more often in Fermanagh, Monaghan and south Tyrone: An Táite ‘the tate’.  At a notional 60 acres, based on the tate, the Fermanagh townlands remain in general smaller that the townlands of other northern counties, based on the ballybo, notionally of 120 acres. Ballintate is on raised ground east of Aghincurk, and rises to 437 feet at its south end. It is smaller than Aghincurk, and the National Trust nature reserve of Ballymoyer lies south of it.

References

Muhr, Kay – Territories, People and Place-Names in Co. Armagh (Armagh – History and Society, ed. A J Hughes & W. Nolan, 2001)

Additional Information

Historical name form

Old Form	Ref. Date	Reference
Antaly	1609	Church Lands Arm. 87
Ballintate	1609	Esch. Co. Map 5.27
Ballintate, one sessioe in	1613	Rent Roll Arm. (PRONI) 6
Ballyntale	1614c	CPR Jas I 273a
Ballintate	1620c	CPR Jas I 478a
Ballintate	1633	Inq. Ult. (Armagh) $20 Car. I
Taty	1657	Inq. Arm. (Paterson) 225
Tate	1657c	Hib. Reg. Fewes
Tate	1661	BSD 16
Tate	1672c	Hib. Del. 28
Tate	1703	Ashe's Acc. Arm.
Tate	1713	Rental Arm. 49
Ballentate	1830c	Bnd. Sur. (OSNB) B''moyre
Ballintate	1830c	Armstrong's Survey (OSNB) B''moyre
Ballintate	1830c	Evans's Return (OSNB) B''moyre
Ballintate	1830c	Sir Walter Synnot (OSNB) B''moyre
Baile an Táite ""Town of Tate (a tate is sixty acre	1834c	J O'D (OSNB) B''moyre
Baile an Ta/ite ""Town of Tate (a tate is sixty acr	1835	J O'D (OSNB) B''moyre
~Ballintate Beul-teithe The tortous defile	1838	Donaldson's Fews 98
~Ballintate Baile-an-táit the townland of the ""tat	1923	Murray's Fews 107

Barony

Fews Upper

Parish

Ballymyre

Parish in 1851

Ballymyre

Townland

None

Place name ID

14077

Place name type

T