Ballybeen, County Down
Origin
perhaps Ir. Baile Bín [bala been] ‘townland of Bean’.
Background
Part of Dundonald, 7.5km E of Belfast city centre
par: Dundonald bar: Castlereagh Lower
The name of the townland of Ballybeen is recorded as Ballibeine in 1605 and as Ballebeene in 1623. The most satisfactory interpretation of the place-name appears to be Baile Bín ‘townland of Bean’, the final element representing a gaelicised form of the English surname ‘Bean’ which according to Hanks and Hodges (1988, 40) can be 1.‘a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of beans…occasionally a nickname for a man of little importance 2.a nickname for a pleasant person, from Medieval English bene ‘friendly, amiable’’. There is another townland named Ballybeen a short distance to the south, in the parish of Comber.
References
McKay, P. (2007): A Dictionary of Ulster Place-Names, p. 11; P. McKay, 2009Additional Information
Historical name form
Old Form | Ref. Date | Reference |
---|---|---|
Baile-binne, the town of the peak | 1913 | Joyce iii 71 |
Baile Bín | 1969 | AGBP 113 |
Baile Bín | 1989 | GÉ 16 |
Baile Bín ""townland of Bean"" | 1999 | Dict. Ulst. PN 11 |
probably Baile Binne "townland of the pointed rock" | 2003 | HMC replies HMCjun03 |
Ballibeine | 1605 | Inq. Ult. (Down) $2 Jac. I |
(?)Ballybin | 1612 | CPR Jas I 236a |
Ballebeene | 1623 | Ham. Copy Inq. [1623] xlii |
Ballebein | 1623 | Ham. Copy Inq. [1623] xlv |
Ba: Binn, part of | 1625c | Raven Map Clandeboye 33 |
Balle Binn | 1625c | Raven Map Clandeboye 33 |
Ballybynn | 1625c | Raven Map Clandeboye 30 |
Ballybynn | 1625c | Raven Map Clandeboye 30 |
Ballebein | 1645 | Inq. Ult. (Down) $104 Car. I |
B:Bine | 1659c | Census 1659 87 |
Ballebeene | 1661 | BSD 127 |
Ballebeene | 1661 | BSD 125 |
Ballybine | 1663 | Sub. Roll Down 284 |
Ballybeen | 1745 | Map of Down (OSNB) No. 48 |
Ballybeen | 1745 | Map of Down (OSNB) No. 48 |
Ballybeen | 1810 | Wm. Map (OSNB) No. 48 |
Ballybeen | 1810 | Wm. Map (OSNB) No. 48 |
Ballybeen | 1830c | Bnd. Sur. (OSNB) No. 48 |
Ballybeen | 1830c | Bnd. Sur. (OSNB) No. 48 |
Baile Binne | 1834c | J O'D (OSNB) No. 38 |
- Barony
- Castlereagh Lower
- Parish
- Dundonald
- Parish in 1851
- Dundonald
- Townland
- None
- Place name ID
- 6814
- Place name type
- T