irish terriers

[greggy 18]

has anyone ever heard of a terrier called an irish bella or balla??i remember reading an old article in either an earth dog or countrymans an saw these dogs which were a red coulor and looked like small staff types with pricked ears, i googled them but nothing came up.any info????cheers.

[Stabs 3]

has anyone ever heard of a terrier called an irish bella or balla??i remember reading an old article in either an earth dog or countrymans an saw these dogs which were a red coulor and looked like small staff types with pricked ears, i googled them but nothing came up.any info????cheers.

 

 

I remember seeing them in the classifieds section about 10 years ago

[greggy 18]

cheers mate.nobody else then.

[gnipper 6,921]

I think it was Bala terriers.

[tinytiger 885]

I think it was Bala terriers.

 

 

balla is a town in mayo if that helps.Ive heard of them but never seen them,i recall seeing balla x plummers advertised somewhere a few years back(in england).Ive never seen or heard of one over here in ireland though (extinct??)

[forest of dean redneck 12,023]

http://irishhunting.myfreeforum.org/archive/balla-terrier__o_t__t_9.html

[tinytiger 885]

On 13/03/2008 at 17:18, greggy said:

has anyone ever heard of a terrier called an irish bella or balla??i remember reading an old article in either an earth dog or countrymans an saw these dogs which were a red coulor and looked like small staff types with pricked ears, i googled them but nothing came up.any info????cheers.

A man from  ballynanty in Limerick  bred them. Think they  were  fox terrier, staff,Patterdale  mix(worker to worker)that he took over when he was working on buildings in 1980s. I actually  knew him for years  before  I  knew about them. Kept mostly  black dogs or the odd lakeland  when  I  knew him. He died back in August 

[WataWalloper 4,135]

20 minutes ago, tinytiger said:

A man from  ballynanty in Limerick  bred them. Think they  were  fox terrier, staff,Patterdale  mix(worker to worker)that he took over when he was working on buildings in 1980s. I actually  knew him for years  before  I  knew about them. Kept mostly  black dogs or the odd lakeland  when  I  knew him. He died back in August 

What you got on these days pal ?

[tinytiger 885]

1 hour ago, WataWalloper said:

What you got on these days pal ?

Few plummer  crosses and a big black hairy thing

[YOKEL 2,368]

The bloke who had them over here was from kings Lynn way and a bit of a crank. I had him turn up round mine when I was selling my old MK1 terrier collars and knocking box. The dog he had was taken out in the field with another gent to prove itself....it didn't. 

Yokel 

[tinytiger 885]

Red ones are only pups ,born 28 june

[tinytiger 885]

Better picture of  black 1.

[WataWalloper 4,135]

1 hour ago, tinytiger said:

Red ones are only pups ,born 28 june

Lovely looking things them, they still Plummery in nature ?

[harryshounds 1,548]

59 minutes ago, tinytiger said:

Better picture of  black 1.

He looks like a vermins nightmare 

[tinytiger 885]

2 hours ago, harryshounds said:

He looks like a vermins nightmare 

Ti's a she,she is.some engine in her too