Béal Átha Beithe

Beal Atha Beithe (Ballybay) takes its name from the landscape that shaped it: beal (mouth or opening), ath (ford), and beith (birch tree) - the mouth of the ford of the birch, where a stream connecting two lakes created a natural crossing point amid birch woodland. The town's recorded history begins in the early eighteenth century when Henry Leslie purchased the Ballybay estate in 1712, but its...