Béal Átha Lúbaigh

Ballylooby derives from Béal Átha Lúbaigh ('mouth of the winding ford'), documented from the mid-17th century in Civil Survey and Down Survey records. The name references a ford associated with a person named Lúbach, with the epithet possibly referring to the ford's winding course. The 1840 Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook by John O'Donovan standardised the name's linguistic analysis. The settl...