Ballin robe

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Ballinrobe ( Irish Baile an Róba ) is a city in Ireland .

It is located in the south of County Mayo in the province of Connacht , Ireland , about 2.0 kilometers east of Lough Mask , on the Robe River . The city has 3,682 inhabitants (as of 2011).

history

Early Christian cross-slab by Ballinrobe

In 1337 the Ballinrobe Monastery , founded around 1312, was first mentioned in a list of the Athenry Monastery . Thus the city is considered the oldest in southern Mayo.
In 1935, the Lithuanian Feliksas Vaitkus (1907-1956) landed in Ballinrobe with his Lituancia II plane after successfully crossing the Atlantic. Vaitkus was the 6th person who succeeded in this achievement.

traffic

Ballinrobe is on the N84 National Road ( Galway - Castlebar ). On November 1, 1892, the city received a railway connection to Claremorris . On June 1, 1930 the people and on January 1, 1960 all traffic was stopped.

Eochy's Cairn in The Neale , south of Ballinrobe is an Irish National Monument .

Sports

literature

Peter Harbison : Guide to the National Monuments in the Republic of Ireland Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1970 0-7171-0275-0 p. 172

Web links

Commons : Ballinrobe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ Aubrey Gwynn , R. Neville Hadcock: Medieval Religious Houses in Ireland . Longman, London 1970, ISBN 0-582-11229-X , pp. 296 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′  N , 9 ° 13 ′  W