Ballysadare
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Ballysadare Baile Easa Dara
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 Ballysadare
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| Coordinates: 54°12′42″N 8°30′34″W / 54.2117°N 8.5094°WCoordinates: 54°12′42″N 8°30′34″W / 54.2117°N 8.5094°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | County Sligo |
| Elevation | 55 m (180 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Urban | 1,344 |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
| Irish Grid Reference | G668293 |
Ballysadare (Irish: Baile Easa Dara, meaning "settlement of the cascades of the oak") is a village in County Sligo, Ireland. It is located about 7 kilometres (4 miles) south of Sligo town Centre. The town developed on an important crossing of the Owenmore River (Irish: Abhainn Mór, meaning "Great River").
The Ox Mountains (Irish: Sliabh Gamh) are located west of the village. The village itself is named after the falls on the Owenmore River. Ballysadare is in the barony of Leyny, formerly the túath of Lúighne. It is in the diocese of Achonry and parish of Ballysadare.
Alternative names for the falls are Ess Mac Modairn (Falls of the son of Modairn) and Ess na n-Éan (The Falls of the Bird).
Ballysadare is a possible location for the town noted as Nagnata on Claudius Ptolemy's 2nd century CE co-ordinate map of the world. Ballysadare was anciently a major gathering place for all surrounding districts.
St. Columba visited Ballysadare in 575 AD at which "Before the Saint (Columba) returned to Britain he founded one church in the district of Carbury, and proceeded from thence to a place called Easdara, where all the prelates of the neighbouring regions, and vast numbers of holy men and women had come to meet him ; and, to say nothing of the rest of the multitude, which was almost beyond counting, a great many distinguished saints of the race of Cumne are recorded to have been present." This extract is from Colgans Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae.
The O'Hara were the lords of Lúighne.
St Féichín was born in the townland of Billa in the parish of Ballysadare. He is said to have studied under St. Nath Í of Achonry further to the south in the same territory. The word Bile means a sacred tree or grove. The townland is the location of the Leaba St. Féichín or St. Feichins bed. The town developed near a church founded by St. Féichín, some time before he died in 664 AD (O’Rorke 1878, 1-4).This monastic site is in Kilboglashy townland and the remains consist of a stone church known as the Great Temple of St. Féichín (Teampal mór Féichín), with a later Romanesque style carved doorway, two small buildings and a graveyard. The O'Duillenain, were erenachs of Ballysadare.
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