We could not match "BALLYCOTTON" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, or as a postcode. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 9 possible matches we have found for you:

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• You have just searched a list of the main towns, villages and localities of Britain which we have kept as simple as possible. It is based on a much more detailed list of legally defined administrative units: counties, districts, parishes, wapentakes and so on. This is the real heart of our system, and you may be better off directly searching it. There are no units called "BALLYCOTTON" (excluding any that have already been grouped into the places you have already searched), but administrative unit searches can be narrowed by area and type, and broadened using wild cards and "sound-alike" matching:
  
  



• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "BALLYCOTTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BALLYCOTTON	Cork	BALLYCOTTON , a village and ploughland, in the parish of CLOYNE, barony of IMOKILLY, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER	Lewis:Ireland
  BOHILLANE, or BOHOLANE	Cork	Ballycotton to Castlemartyr, and comprises 1848 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £959 per annum	Lewis:Ireland
  CHURCHTOWN, or BALLINTEMPLE	Cork	Ballycotton was erected in 1835, at an expense of £330. raised by subscription. The glebe comprises seven acres in two portions	Lewis:Ireland
  CLOYNE	Cork	Ballycotton, forming the extreme western point of the coast. in Ballycotton bay. Besides the Episcopal palace, the principal seats are Kilboy	Lewis:Ireland
  CORK	Cork	Ballycotton; Cove, containing the stations of Ballycroneen, Poor Head, Lighthouse, East Ferry, Cove, Cork, Crosshaven, and Robert's Cove; Kinsale	Lewis:Ireland
  KILCREDAN	Cork	Ballycotton bay, and from its fine beach of sand extending in a bold semicircular sweep for nearly four miles, this	Lewis:Ireland
  KILMAHON	Cork	Ballycotton, during easterly winds, the sea beats over the strand with great fury. The valley rests on a substratum of limestone	Lewis:Ireland
  LADIES'-BRIDGE	Cork	Ballycotton; containing 41 houses and 231 inhabitants. Here is the R. C. chapel for the union or district of Ightermurragh	Lewis:Ireland
  YOUGHAL	Cork	Ballycotton. The market is daily, but the principal market is on Saturday, which is large and well supplied, particularly with	Lewis:Ireland

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find names similar to your search term:
  
  



• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



• If you know where you are interested in, but don't know the place-name, go to our historical mapping, and zoom in on the area you are interested in. Click on the "Information" icon, and your mouse pointer should change into a question mark: click again on the location you are interested in. This will take you to a page for that location, with links to both administrative units, modern and historical, which cover it, and to places which were nearby. For example, if you know where an ancestor lived, Vision of Britain can tell you the parish and Registration District it was in, helping you locate your ancestor's birth, marriage or death.