Béal Átha an Daingin

Balladian, located in Ballybay Rural Electoral Division in County Monaghan, is a townland whose Irish name Béal Átha an Daingin refers to a ford and fort, likely describing a strategic crossing point. The settlement's documented history begins in the late seventeenth century. After the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, the Breakey family, French Huguenots expelled from southern France, settled in Ba...