A historical Irish land-measurement term used in Ulster, referring to a unit of land equivalent to a townland or a subdivision of one. The word comes from Irish Gaelic and was used in the context of the plantation and settlement of Ulster. Now historical and encountered mainly in place-name studies and colonial-era land records.
The grant covered two ballyboes in the barony, totalling roughly sixty acres.
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(Ireland, historical) A townland in Ulster.
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