Ballintober, County Roscommon

Village in Connacht, Ireland

Ballintober Baile an Tobair
Village
Ballintober Castle
53°43′04″N 8°24′35″W / 53.7179°N 8.4096°W / 53.7179; -8.4096
Country	Ireland
Province	Connacht
County	County Roscommon
Elevation	83 m (272 ft)
Population (2022)^[1]	199
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid Reference	M725741

Ballintober (Irish: Baile an Tobair, meaning 'settlement of the well')^[2] is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is 6 kilometres (4 mi) from the town of Castlerea. As of the 2022 census, Ballintober had a population of 199.^[1] The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.^[2]

On the outskirts of the village are the remains of an early 14th century stone castle first mentioned in writing in 1311.^[3] It is not recorded who built Ballintober Castle, but it is generally associated with the O'Conor family who ruled Connaught for several centuries.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "Census Interactive Map – Towns: Ballintober". Census 2022. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Baile an Tobair / Ballintober". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Ballintober Castle County Roscommon" (PDF). roscommoncoco.ie. Roscommon County Council. Retrieved 7 March 2020. Ballintober is a privately owned castle under the care of its ancestral occupants, the O'Conors of Connacht [..] The castle was built at the very start of the 14th century [..] The first reference to Ballintober is [in 1311] when a mercenary killed a Gruelach/warrior, and was himself killed