Ballyorgan, County Limerick
village in County Limerick, Ireland
Ballyorgan (Irish: Baile Uí Argáin) is a small village situated in County Limerick. The name of the village in Irish corresponds to the town of Horgan or Ó hArgáin (Baile: town and Uí Argáin: Organ or Horgan, a person’s name).
Location
The village of Ballyorgan is located in the south-east of County Limerick, approximately 49 kilometres from Limerick city. The closest town to it is Kilfinane. It is situated on the Keale River, which is part of the Blackwater catchment. The Keale River joins the Funshion river, which then joins the Blackwater. The village sits at the base of the Ballyhoura Mountains, below Seefin, the Long Mountain and Coolfree Mountain. The area is of ecological interest, being in close proximity to two Special Areas of Conservation (Ballyhoura Mountains and Carrigeenamronety Hill, and including the proposed Natural Heritage Area of Castleoliver Woods (Site code 002090).
History
The Palatines
Ballyorgan village has a long association with the Palatines who emigrated from the Rhine Palatine in the late 16th century. When the Palatines left Germany in 1709, many of the families came to Ireland, and Ballyorgan was one of the areas of County Limerick in which they settled.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village in County Limerick, Ireland. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q135069644. Authority coordinates are 52.318, -8.470. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1709.
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