Spelled as above on the 1901 census returns. Spelled 'Ballyhaugeag', West in the pamphelts published by the General Registrar's Office in Dublin, 1885 - re-published in the Townlands and Poor Law Unions of Ireland, Edited by G.B. Handrahan and I can find nothing close to either spelling in the 1851 townlands directory. I have not checked variations on the word Bally though - so it may be there with the Bally replaced by Ballin - Ballina or Ballinagh - or, even Ballagh. Regardless, the following people were listed as the Heads of Household in the townland of Ballyhaugay West, Kilcroan parish in County Galway in 1901. Seventeen families in all. Druchy Patrick Gormley Patrick Kenny Patrick Hanley Michael Mitchell Martin Mullen Michael Fox Michael Moogan John Burke Edward Mulvihill Bernard Lyons James Keaveny Andrew Fannon Bridget Skiffington Michael Dane Patrick Dean Martin If any person is familiar with this place, with any of these families and knows another spelling for it - be that spelling phonetic or whatever, I'd be interested in knowing this other spelling. Does anyone know the spelling as per the Tithes or the Griffiths? Please and thanks I am not researching any of the above families - and have taken no information other than what I list and the number of the plot/house they lived in as per the enumerators sheet. Patrick Dane's name was spelled Dean on the enumerators sheets - or else, it was Martin Dean was spelled as Dane. Either way, the spelling/name given here is as per the individual family sheet, filled out and signed by the person who lived in the house. The name given on the enumerator's sheet was wrong - for one of them - spelling wise compared to those individual family sheets. Usually though, when two people with such close names live beside one another - you find they are related and the name used to be the same. Jane