Ballintober, County Roscommon

Not to be confused with Ballintubber, County Mayo.
Ballintober
Baile an Tobair
Town
Ballintober

Location in Ireland

Coordinates: 53°43′00″N 8°25′00″W / 53.7167°N 8.4167°W / 53.7167; -8.4167Coordinates: 53°43′00″N 8°25′00″W / 53.7167°N 8.4167°W / 53.7167; -8.4167
Country Ireland
Province Connacht
County County Roscommon
Elevation 83 m (272 ft)
Time zone WET (UTC+0)
 • Summer (DST) IST (WEST) (UTC-1)
Irish Grid Reference M725741

Ballintober (Irish: Baile an Tobair, meaning "settlement of the well") is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland.

Ballintober, County Roscommon, is 6 kilometers from the town of Castlerea. It contains a reasonably well preserved remains of a stone castle first mentioned in writing in 1311. It is not recorded who built the castle, but the builders may either be the Normans, or the O'Conor family who ruled Connaught at various times during the last two millennia. It is said that King Cathal O'Connor called for an abbey to be built at Ballintubber. However, his workers built the abbey at Ballintubber, Co. Roscommon and not Ballintubber, County Mayo. When O'Connor discovered this, he ordered that a greater and grander abbey be built in the correct Ballintubber, located in Co. Mayo.

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