B A L 



fine flat fif!i ani! lobUcrs, wlirch arc cliiefly fent to Cork. 

 There is a fiiinll idniid of thv- fame name, which forms o!ie 

 extremity of the btiy, and 'S almoft covered, in the f. afon, 

 with the neilsand c-u;gs of various fea-fowl, efpecially puffins. 

 N. lat. 51° 50'. W. lon-T. 7^ 59', 



BALLYDONEGAN, a bay on the fouth coafl of Ire- 

 land, in the counly of Coric, on the fouth fide of tlie en- 

 trance into Kenmarc river. It has an open entrance, with a 

 good depth of water and ancliorage. 



BALLYELA, a bay in the Atlantic ocean, on the weft 

 coait of Ireland, twelve miles fonth-tali; of South Anan 

 iflands. N. lat. 52° 53'. W. long. y° 20'. See Bal- 



LIliLA. 



BALLYGELLY Head, a cape on the eaft coaft of 

 Ireland, in the Inlh fca. N. lat. 5+° 54'. W. long. 5° 

 44'. 



BALLYHAVEN, in Geography-, lies within the entrance 

 of Strangford haven, on the ealt coall of Ireland, beyond 

 Port Ferry on the eaft fide. 



BALLYHAUNIS, a poft-town, or rather village, in 

 thecounty of Mayo, province of Connaught, Ireland, where 

 are the ruins of a monaftery ; 100 Irifti miles north-weft of 

 Dublin. 



BALLYHAYES, a fmall town of the county of Cavan 

 in Ireland, which has an improving market, and mills for 

 flour and oatmeal. The market-houfe and the ring of the 

 old town are arched, and built of brick. Thefe antique and 

 fantaftical buildings fhew it to have been once a place of 

 confiderable note, being remarkably furnilhed with all the old- 

 fadiioned ornaments that the lords of this county were par- 

 ticnlarlv attached to. This town and the adjoining demefne 

 have fuffcred much from a long difpute refpedling the pof- 

 fellion. Diftance from Dublin 57 Irifli miles north-weft. 



EALLYKAIA, an ifland on the north-weft fide of the 

 fea of Azof, and near the northern extremity of it. N. 

 lat. 46" 38'. E.long. s€>° iS'. 



BALLYLANY, a fmall idand in the Atlantic ocean, 

 near tlie weft coaft of Ireland. N. lat. 53° 23'. W. long. 

 10'^ 16'. 



BALLYLEIGH Head, or Kerry-head, the fouth point 

 of the entrance of Sliannon river. 



BALLYLESS Bay, a fmall harbour on the north-weft 

 coaft of Ireland, towards the weftern point, having Dunfine 

 head for its eaftern lim.it, and dircdlly weft from Sligo bay, 

 and eaft from Broad haven. 



BALLYMACHUS Point, the weftern point of the 

 entrance into Oyfter-haven, without the eaftern point of the 

 entrance into Kinfale harbour, on the fouth-caft coaft of 

 Ireland. 



BALLYMEHON, a market and poft town in the coun- 

 ty of Dongford, province of Leinfter, Ireland, 58 Irilh 

 miles north-weft of Dublin. 



BALLYMENAH, a town of Ireland, in the county of 

 Antrim ; ten miles north of Antrim. 



BALLYNAMORE, a poft-town in the county of Gal- 

 way, province of Connaught, Ireland, eigiity-five Iriili miles 

 weft of Dublin. 



BALLYQUINTON Point, a cape on the eaft pf the 

 county of Down in Ireland, m the Irifli fea, at the eaft of 

 the entrance into Strangford lough ; feven miles eaft of 

 Downpatrick. N. lat. 54'^ 19'. W. long. 5° 26'. 



BA-LLYSERAY Cape, lies north-caft of Ballykaia 

 i.Hand, in the fea of Azof, on a peninfula. N. lat. 46" 50. 

 E. long. 56° 48'. It is alfo called Kofa Bh-lo' Sierai 

 Kava- 



BALLYSHANNON, a town of the county of Done- 

 gal, in the province of Ulfter, Ireland, fituated on the river 



B A I. 



Erne, which difcharges the waters of Lough Erne into 

 the bay of Donegal, at the diftance of about three miles 

 from the fea. It is the prircipal town in the county, and 

 was formerly of fome conicquence as a fortified place, 

 though at prcf nt it derives its importance chiefly from its 

 fahnon ti'liery. The harbour is a barred one, but at high 

 water is navig.ible for vedVlfi of 40 or 50 tons buithen up 

 to the waterfall, where is fafe anchoi-age for a great deal 

 of ftiioping ; but tlic bar is for fome hundreds of yards fo 

 t.xpofed to f.uth-wcilerly ftorms, as to render it quite inac- 

 cefTible dn.ring high winds. The fahnon leap, which is near 

 the town, has a very beautiful appearance ; the fall is down 

 a ridge of rocks about twelve feet high, and at low water 

 forms a very picturefque objeft. It is one of the principal 

 falmon leaps in Ireland, and when laft rented was fet for near 

 liool. It has during the two laft years (iSq2) been much 

 more produflive. There is alio an eel fiOiery, which fets 

 at 325 1. 10 s. 6d. yearly. Before the fall, in the middle 

 of the river, is a rocky ifland, on which is a curing-houfe, 

 inftead of the turret of a ruined caftle lor which it feems 

 formed. The coaft of the river is very bold, confifting of 

 perpendicular rocks with grafs of a beautiful verdure to the 

 very edge ; it projefts in little promontories which grow 

 longer as they approach the fea, and open to give a fine 

 view of the ocean. The town is prettily fituated on the 

 rifing ground on each fide of the river, over which there is 

 a bridge of fourteen arches. It has improved much within 

 a few years, and is acquiring fome degree of importance ia 

 trade, which would increale much more if a ftrong wall was 

 built to ftielter the entrance of the harbour. The comple- 

 tion of the canal which has been undertaken to join Lough 

 Erne to the fea at Ballylhanuon, would alfo be of material 

 fervice to it. Near the town, the Rt. Hon. Thomas 

 Conolly has cftablilhed a limn manufaftory, viz. twenty 

 houles with two looms in each houfe, and a certain portion 

 of land annexed to it. The Tyrhugh Farmers Society 

 has alfo oftered premiums for eftablifhing a Inen market 

 at Ballyfhannon, A little north of the town of Ballyihan- 

 non, on Mr. Conolly's eftate, is a large bank of yellow py- 

 rites. This town was made a corporation in 161 i, and 

 fent two members to pailiament ; but this privilege has 

 been difcontinued fince the union. Its diftance from Dub- 

 Im is loi Irilh miles. Longitude 8' 2' weft of Greenwich, 

 latitude 54^^ 31' N. Young's Tour. Boate. Dr. Beau- 

 fort. M'Farlane's Stat. Account of Donegal. 



BALLYTEIGH Bay lies round the eaft point of the 

 entrance into Bannoc or Bannow bay. (See Bannov/.) At 

 the fouth end is a fmall ifland called Inch ifland. 



BALLYVAGHAN, a bay on the weftern coaft of Ire- 

 land, and north part of the county of Clare, in the fouth 

 part of Gahvay bay. 



BALLYVARY, a poft and fair town in the county of 

 Mayo, province of Connaught, Ireland, 135 Irifli miles 

 north-weft of Dublin. 



BALLYWATER, the mouth of the entrance into 

 Carrickfergus bay, on the north-eaft coaft of Ireland, and 

 the opening of Belfaft river. The name is fometimes given 

 to the fea fouthward along the eaft coaft of the peninfulaj 

 of which Strangford lough, or lake, is the weft fide. 



BALM, in Botany. See Melis.sa. 



Balm of Gilead. See Dracocephalum. 



Balm, or Balsam. See Balsam. 



Balm, in Geography, a town of Germany, in the circle 

 of Upper Saxony, and Hinder Pomerania, 17 miles S. W. 

 of Stargard, and 17 fouth of Old Stettin. N. lat. 53° 8'. 

 E. long. 14° 48'. 



EALMALA, 



