Ballynary
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Ballynary (Template:Langx, meaning 'townland of the fodder')[1] is a townland on the eastern shore of Lough Arrow in south County Sligo, Ireland. Ballynary was the ancestral seat of the O'Higgins family (or Script error: No such module "Lang". in Irish) for 700 years,[2] until they were forced off their lands in 1654 by Oliver Cromwell.[3]
The townland of Ballynary is just over Script error: No such module "convert". in area, and is Template:Cvt from Ballindoon where the ruins of a Dominican Abbey, founded by the MacDonagh Clan, are located. Ballynary also contains the O'Higgins Memorial Park which is dedicated to Ambrose O'Higgins, born in Ballynary in 1720 and who—emigrating to Spain to escape the discrimination against Irish Catholics in his time—eventually became the Viceroy of Peru, then part of the Spanish Empire. His son Bernardo O'Higgins became the first Supreme Director of Chile.[4]
The Chilean city of Vallenar was founded by Ambrose O'Higgins and named for his birthplace, the variant spelling having developed though usage by Spanish-speaking inhabitants. The name of Vallenar Bay in Alaska is derived from the Chilean name and thus indirectly from the Irish one.[5]
References
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- ↑ MacKenna, Carlos Juan. 1916. El Origen de don Ambrosio O’Higgins y sus primeros anos en América. Revista Chilen de Historia y Geographia, No. 21. pp. 126-150.
- ↑ O'Rorke, T. (1889) "The History of Sligo Town and County Vol. II – Conclusion" (Dublin: Duffy & Company).
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- ↑ Place Names in Revillagigedo and Gravina Islands: Spanish and Irish heritage of Southeast Alaska
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