Blue Ball, Offaly
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Blue Ball, historically known as Pallas (), is a small village in County Offaly, Ireland. The village lies to the southwest of
Tullamore Tullamore (; ) is the county town of County Offaly in Ireland. It is on the Grand Canal, in the middle of the county, and is the fourth most populous town in the midlands region with 14,607 inhabitants at the 2016 census. The town retained ...
, at the junction of the N52 and the R357 roads, in the
civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
of
Killoughy Killoughey, officially Killoughy and historically "Killaghy" or "Killahy" (),Placenames Database of Ireland
(see ...
, Pallas Lough, also in the civil parish of Killoughy, is a small fishing lake located to the east of the village. Butterfield Estate, near Blue Ball, hosts an annual agricultural and livestock show, the
Tullamore Show The Tullamore Show is a one-day agricultural and livestock show held on the second Sunday of August each year near the town of Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland. The programme of the Tullamore Show includes cultural events, commercial trade ex ...
.


See also

* List of towns and villages in Ireland


References

Towns and villages in County Offaly {{Offaly-geo-stub