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Ballina Shire Council is composed of three three-member wards, as well as a directly elected mayor. In August 2024, Sharon Cadwallader Team councillor Eva Ramsey split from the group to contest the election as a self-described "true independent". [ 2 ]
Ballina (/ ˌ b æ l ə ˈ n ɑː / bal-ə-NA; Irish: Béal an Átha, meaning 'mouth of the ford') is a town in north County Mayo, Ireland. It lies at the mouth of the River Moy near Killala Bay , in the Moy valley and Parish of Kilmoremoy, with the Ox Mountains to the east and the Nephin Beg mountains to the west.
The railway station buildings have historical significance. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage describe the station as "an integral component of the later nineteenth-century built heritage of Ballina on account of the connections with the continued development of the Mayo Branch of the Midland Great Western Railway." [1]
Ballina may refer to: Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland; Ballina, County Tipperary, Ireland; Ballina, New South Wales, Australia Electoral district of Ballina, an electoral district in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, based in the area; Ballina Shire, a local government area of which Ballina is the largest town and the administrative centre
Decades before this Great Lakes site became a national park in 2000, severe pollution ravaged the Cuyahoga River – so much so that the river caught on fire a dozen times. In 1969, the river ...
The reserve is of great significance to the Bundjalung people and contains middens and open campsites. [5] It is accessible directly to Ballina via the Burns Point Ferry, a vehicular cable ferry, which crosses the Richmond River from Burns Point Ferry Road in West Ballina and River Drive in South Ballina. This crossing is 300 metres in length ...
Richmond River Lighthouse is listed on the Register of National Estate held by the Australian Heritage Commission (Commonwealth Government) in 1983; this listing is defunct as this list was closed in 2007. [14] However, it is also listed under the North Coast Regional Environmental Plan 1988 and the Ballina Local Environmental Plan 1987. [15]
The descendants of Cormac Gaileng, great grandson of Olioll Olum were called Gailenga, the race of Gaileng, and they gave their name to the barony of Gallen in Mayo. [ 2 ] Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen, created in 1622 for Theobald Dillon , Lord President of Connaught , held the title in the Peerage of Ireland .