Ballyorgan gets its name from Horgans town. It is a small Palatine village nestling in the valley of the Keale River. The village was founded in 1760 as a utilitarian village for the estate house of Castle Oliver, supplying all the trades people for the estate. Stone masons, bakers, tailors and blacksmiths were all employed by the estate. Just outside the village is Kilflyn Church, which is believed to have been a Trinitarian monastery, built by the Geraldine order in 1296. Ballyorgan is home to one of the first creameries in Ireland which was opened in the 1920's, it was also the village in which Patrick Weston Joyce was born.

Heritage Houses

For info on Castle Oliver situated near Ballyfarnon click here

Clan Name

Ballyorgan is part of the ancestral home of the McGuire/Maguire and Sweeney in Ireland and forms a stage of the Beara-Breifne Greenway which is based on the historic march of O'Sullivan Beara in 1603.

Greenways Festival 2003

Ballyorgan is talking part in the Greenways Festival in summer 2003 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the legendary 1603 march of O’Sullivan Beara from the Beara Peninsula to the Breifne area. Click here for info on the events