Ballintober
Baile an Tobair | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 53°43′04″N 8°24′35″W / 53.7179°N 8.4096°W | |
Country | Ireland |
Province | Connacht |
County | County Roscommon |
Elevation | 83 m (272 ft) |
Population | 199 |
Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
Irish Grid Reference | M725741 |
Ballintober (Irish: Baile an Tobair, meaning 'settlement of the well')[2] is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is 6 kilometres (4 mi) from the town of Castlerea. As of the 2022 census, Ballintober had a population of 199.[1] The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.[2]
On the outskirts of the village are the remains of an early 14th century stone castle first mentioned in writing in 1311.[3] It is not recorded who built Ballintober Castle, but it is generally associated with the O'Conor family who ruled Connaught for several centuries.[3]
Ballintober is a privately owned castle under the care of its ancestral occupants, the O'Conors of Connacht [..] The castle was built at the very start of the 14th century [..] The first reference to Ballintober is [in 1311] when a mercenary killed a Gruelach/warrior, and was himself killed