Balla in Mayo. In the Life of St. Mochua, we are told that before the saint founded his monastery there in the seventh century, the place was called Ros-dairbh-reach [Ros-dar'aragh], i. e. oak grove; that he enclosed the wells of his establishment with a balla or wall; and that hence the place received the new name of Balla.
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