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Ballela GAC

gaelic games club in County Down

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ131286485 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ballela Gaelic Athletic Club, also called Ballela Camogie and Hurling Club or Éire Óg Ballela, is a hurling and camogie club based in Ballela, County Down, Northern Ireland.

History

The club was founded in 1901 and was for a time among the leading clubs of County Down, winning the Down SHC seven times between 1936 and 1952. They won the Down JHC several times in recent years, including in 2024.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ballela GAC” as gaelic games club in County Down. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1901, 1936, 1952, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ballela, gaelic and games can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as gaelic games club in County Down. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q131286485. Authority coordinates are 54.355, -6.148. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1901, 1936, 1952 and 2024.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ballela GAC”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ballela GAC primary sources, Ballela GAC archive and Ballela research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ballela GAC”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ballela GAC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.