Ballysadare
Baile Easa Dara | |
|---|---|
Town | |
 Ballysadare's main street | |
  Ballysadare Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 54°12′42″N 8°30′34″W / 54.2117°N 8.5094°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | County Sligo |
| Elevation | 55 m (180 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 1,747 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | G668293 |
Ballysadare (Irish: Baile Easa Dara, meaning 'town of the waterfall of the oak'),[2][3] locally also Ballisodare,[4] is a town in County Sligo, Ireland. It is about 7 km (4 mi) south of Sligo town. The town developed on an important crossing of the Owenmore River. Ballysadare is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.[4]
- ^ "Interactive Data Visualisations: Towns: Ballysadare". Census 2022. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ McLoughlin, John. "Trees and woodland names in Irish placenames" Archived 25 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Irish Forestry, Vol. 73 (2016). p.249
- ^ Mills, David. A Dictionary of British Place-Names. Oxford University Press, 2011. p.38
- ^ a b "Baile Easa Dara/Ballysadare". Placenames Database of Ireland. Archived from the original on 23 February 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2024.