Ballinrobe is a city in The Catholic Republic Of Mayo, its exact location is disputed and successive cartographers have tried to document it but have went missing in the process. This has given rise to the area known as The Ballinrobe Triangle prompting the Mayo government to reach an agreement with the United States to use satellite technology to pinpoint its location which should be realised sometime in February 2009 when the “TERRA” satellite will be directly over the presumed location. Since the 1980s the people of Ballinrobe have been afforded ethnic minority status in both the Republic of Ireland and The U.K., this was due in a large part to DNA analysis which controversially indicated a strong resemblance to the sheep genome (Ovis aries).