Ballynary

Ballynary is the name of a townland on the eastern shore of Lough Arrow in the southern corner of County Sligo in Ireland. Ballynary is the ancestral seat of the O'Higgins family. Forced off their lands in 1654 by Oliver Cromwell, The head of this family still uses the title The O'Higgins of Ballynary or Lord of Ballynary although the family have not lived there since the 17th century. The townland of Ballynary contains just over 210 acres and bordred the townland of Ballindoon where the ruins of a Dominican Abbey, founded by the MacDonagh Clan, are located. Ballynary also contains O'Higgins Memorial Park which is dedicated to Ambrose O'Higgins the Spanish Viceroy to Peru who was born in Ballynary in 1720/21. His son Bernardo O'Higgins became the first head of State of Chile.