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Ballylanders, Co Limerick, Ireland is a small village in
Limerick. It is in the south part of the
county along the Mitchelstown-Limerick road.
In the 2006 census a population of 333 was recorded.[i]
Ballylanders translates as “de Londras town” which could
either be a reference to an Anglo-Norman surname “Landers” or can also be
translated as referring to the “Town of the Londoner”. Either could since the surname Fleming could
have originated in Flanders and Griffith’s Valuation indicates that most of the
land was actually owned by Englishmen.[ii]
There is a holy well at the west side of the village which
serves as the focal point of the “Pattern Day” held on 15 August. It is one of the major fair days of the area.[iii]
This then is the area where Thomas Fleming ran a grocery
store and raised his family. Most likely he was the only merchant in the
village while most of the employment was in farming.
Alice Fleming’s Baptismal records indicate that the ceremony
took place in Galbally, Limerick, Ireland.[iv]
Galbally is a village in southeast Limerick at the foot of
the Galtee Mountains. Galbally or An Gallbhaile
means “town of the stranger or the foreigner”.
It is part of the Catholic
ecclesiastical parish of Galbally and Lisvernane. Locating both Ballylanders and Galbally on a
map shows their proximity and would help to explain why the baptism took place
there. This appears to be the closest
church. The deanery of Galbally in the
Diocese of Tipperary includes both Ballylanders and Lisvermane.[vi] As further research is completed Lisvermane
will enter the picture as perhaps the home of the Hennessys.
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