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Ballygall () is a small suburban area located between and , on the northside of the city of , Ireland. It is also a divided between the civil parish of Finglas and that of . It was settled by in the 11th century, and later by the .

The area is largely residential, with St Kevin's College, some shops, and a church and schools.


Etymology
The Cambro-Normans called it Fyngallestoun, the township of , but the indigenous called it the town of the Galls, or foreigners, hence in Gaelic, Baile na nGall. Whether from the Normans or the Gaels, it was abbreviated later in old charters to Gallstoun. It seems to have been originally settled by a man called Arthur, hence it appears also as Arthurstoun. It seems to have morphed from Gallstoun to Ballygall sometime in the 16th century. There are many similarly named denominations in the archives of the Registry of Deeds.Amongst denominations registered are several entries for Ballygalls, Galls/Gauls (Crumlin) Gallstown, Gallandstowne/ Gallanstown/ Gallenstown (), Gillinstowne (), in the traditional . In , the following are listed: Finglastown (listed severally under baronies of Morgallion and Deece); Gillistoune also Gallestowne (peculiarly listed under half-Fore, Kells, , and Deece), and Gallstowne/Gaulstown (under Barony of ) - Gallstown or Gaulstown is a locality in the parish of ; another Gaulstown lies in the barony of lower ; another near Skreen, and another in Upper Deece in the parish of Culmullin; Gallynstowne also Gillstowne (Duleek)


History
A place called Arthureston is mentioned explicitly as a in the Chancery Rolls of Ireland in several places under several entries during the reign of King in the 14th century. Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae Calendarium for the following specific page/paragraph references to Arthureston: page 45/paragraph 72; 47/137; 48/170; 55/205. A very specific reference to Fyngaleston relates to Cristofor de Preston. Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae Calendarium, paragraph 80, page 91, for Fyngaleston 12, anno 49 Edward III ( Rotulus Patens) It is also mentioned in the Calendar of the Gormanstown Register as a manor, and was the original seat of the Prestons, the principal landholders of Fingal, before they moved to and became lords and later Viscounts of Gormanston. Calendar of the Gormanston Register circa 1175-1397, being an extra volume of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, prepared and edited by James Mills, and M. J. McEnery, University Press, Dublin, 1916. See pages xvii, 2, 53-55. It was granted in 1318 as a Manor to William de Prestoun:

A of 1334 in the Gormanston Register also refers: Quit-claim of Arthurestoun, which is called Fyngallestoun. Hugh de Lacy, knight, has for ever released to William de Prestoun, burgess of Drogheda, all his right and claim.

Fyngalleston was the first royal grant made to the Prestons in Ireland, for laudable services, an honour. It was previously a knight's property, with associated demesnes and lordships. It may in fact be the only manorial title which the Prestons held originally directly from the Crown (as distinct from those to which they succeeded from others). It was therefore held as , and as their initial principal manor. Although the Prestons later disposed of the lands, the lordship of the manor was not alienated, and remained with the Prestons under reversion, and passed eventually to a resident of Ballygall. At the time in 1363 when the lands were being disposed, Robert de Prestoun was deeply involved in the acquisition of the more substantial Manor of Gormanston. In fact Gormanston was acquired in the same year as the lands at Fyngallestoun were disposed. It is not known exactly when the manor of Fyngallestoun ceased to function as a manor (with courts leet and baron), but it is likely that it ceased when the Prestons moved from Fyngallestoun to Gormanston c. 1363, which then became their chief manor (and for which extensive records of manorial courts exist still in the ownership and custody of Viscount Gormanston). The shift in nomenclature of Fyngallestoun/Gallstoun to Ballygall probably occurred in the 16th century.

Historically, a large part of the original of Ballygall belonged to the Ball family. (1515-1584) married , a prosperous merchant who held houses in Ballygall and Merchants’ Quay. Their manor house Ballygall House was built in the early 16th century, most likely on the site of the old Manor of Fyngallestoun, and was located where the modern housing estate now called Hillcrest Park is located. Ballygall House was located between the present houses numbered 10–60 in Hillcrest Park, its demesne extending to Glasnevin Avenue. The Ballygall estate which belonged to the Ball family in the 16th century was used for agricultural purposes right up to 1964 when the last owners, the Craigie family of Merville Dairy in Finglas, sold it for housing development.

(the former Margaret Bermingham) maintained a Catholic household at Ballygall House where she gave refuge to Catholic clergy and provided education to the children of Catholic families despite being prohibited to do so by Penal Laws. Imprisoned by her son, Walter Ball (d. 1598), who conformed to the established (Anglican) church and who became Mayor of Dublin in 1577, she died in 1584 in . In September 1992 Pope John Paul II beatified Margaret Ball along with 16 other martyrs who had died at the hands of English authorities in Ireland due to their unwillingness to accept the Protestant faith. She is Secondary Patroness of the Roman Catholic Parish of Ballygall, which includes an oratory to her memory.


Location
Ballygall lies within the southern part of ancient , although the modern county of the same name has its southern boundary a bit further north. Its centre is about 2 km from the centre of Glasnevin and 3 km from central Finglas. Ballygall is divided between the barony of Castleknock to the west and the barony of Coolock to the east. Ballygall lies between the villages of and , and the old parish, now large suburban district, of .

Within the area of , a location identified as “Gallenstown” appears in the map of County Dublin drawn by Sir in the 17th century.See the series of county maps executed by Sir William Petty, and which identify baronies and manors in the 17th century. Originals are held in the manuscripts section of the National Library of Ireland, Dublin. In the same series, another “Gallestown” appears south of Marlinstown and north of Drogheda, in the center of the barony of Ferard, in the map of . Ballygall (Gallstown in Gaelic is Baile na nGall, anglicised Ballygall) is a modern parish between Finglas and in old Fingal, and is referred to as Ballygals or Ballygales in the of 1654. The Civil Survey relates properties in very close proximity in the Finglas-Santry axis: Finglas (p. 143); Barnewall's farm "south with ye lane leading from Ffinglas to Ballygals, west to Arthur’s land, north to Jamestown', etc.. Note the proximity of these three location names: Finglas, Ballygall (Gallstown), and Arthur’s land, which might recall that Fyngalleston, Gallston and Arthureston, were applied interchangeably to the same area”. This area comprising Finglas, Ballygall, and through Santry to the coast near , just north of Dublin would have been the original heartland of Fingal, “land of the foreigners” from which they gradually spread north along the coast and inland, hence the original denomination of Fyngallestoun. The neighbouring Manor of Glasnevin is now the Holy Faith Convent.

The modern townland has an area of of which are in the Barony of Castleknock, Civil Parish of Finglas, and in the Barony of Coolock, Civil Parish of Glasnevin.


Boundaries
The portion of the townland in the parish of Finglas covers the areas of Ballygall Road East, Hillcrest, Benevin and parts of Glasnevin Avenue to the north with Saint Kevin's College on the southern boundary. The portion of the townland in the Civil Parish of Glasnevin covers the area from Ballygall Road East in front of the Church of the Our Mother of Divine Grace and the western portion of St. Canices Road and Wadelai estate


Religion
Ballygall is a in the Fingal South West deanery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin, served by the Church of Our Mother of Divine Grace. Official website - Ballygall parish Centred on the townland of Ballygall, it was constituted in 1964 from Glasnevin, and its boundaries also include other townlands such as Johnstown, Tolka, Walnut Grove and Wadeli.


Community and voluntary sector
The Catholic parish hosts a unit of the Order of Malta Ambulance Corps and its cadets.


Notable people
  • (d. 1573), Mayor of Dublin
  • (1514–1584), Irish martyr
  • Walter Ball (d. 1598), Mayor of Dublin, co-founder of Trinity College Dublin
  • (1941–2001), journalist, writer and special advisor to Margaret Thatcher
  • , broadcaster
  • , songwriter/performer (1959-)
  • , Ireland women's soccer team and manager
  • , TV broadcaster and news reporter.
  • , leading racing cyclist and later national coach
  • , cyclist, later president of the national cycling federation
  • , racing cyclist, later president of the national cycling federation and the world governing body
  • (1953- ), actor
  • Francis Martin O'Donnell (1954- ), ambassador, Knight of Malta, diplomat, historian
  • James O'Higgins Norman, academic and author.
  • David O'Leary (1958- ), Irish soccer international footballer
  • , Dublin County footballer 1979-1991

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