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Ballybeg
Ballybeg is an anglicisation of the Irish language term, Baile Beag, which means "Little Town". The Irish playwright Brian Friel has set many of his works, such as Philadelphia Here I Come!, Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa, in the fictional County Donegal town of Ballybeg. Friel's Ballybeg has often been compared to the village of Glenties, close to where he lived.
Ballybeg is also the name of many small townlands, towns and villages in Ireland, including:
- Ballybeg, a townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
- Ballybeg Road, a small road between Portglenone and Ahoghill in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
- Ballybeg, a townland in County Carlow, Ireland
- Ballybeg in Clarecastle, County Clare, Ireland
- Ballybeg Priory near Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland
- Ballybeg, a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland
- Ballybeg, a townland in County Laois, Ireland
- Ballybeg, a townland near Strokestown, County Roscommon, Ireland
- Ballybeg, Borrisleigh, County Tipperary, a townland in County Tipperary
- Ballybeg, County Tyrone, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
- Ballybeg, a suburb of Waterford, Ireland
- Ballybeg, Faughalstown, a townland in Faughalstown civil parish, barony of Fore, County Westmeath, Republic of Ireland
- Ballybeg, Kilcumreragh, a townland in Kilcumreragh civil parish, barony of Moycashel, County Westmeath, Republic of Ireland
- Ballybeg, a village in County Wicklow, Ireland
Many other places called Ballybeg are distributed around Ireland, and in Serbia there is a Ballybeg Mosque, built under the orders of Bali-beg Malkočević around 1521 1.