History of Irisan

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             Irisan used to be a part of tuba, benguet under the first mayor of tuba. irisan came from ibaloi term 

'IDISAN'meaning a wood used to grind something to make it fine . The traditional ibaloi houses were only a 

few houses in irisan. Irisan barangay now has the biggest population of all barangays in baguio city.in each 

purok, you can still finda few ibaloi families living there.Virginia Luna , now 72 years old,is a native of barlig, 

mountain province , who was a young girl of 13 years, come to irisan with her father in 1946, later on she 

married Felix Luna, a son of the 20  or 50 or so original ibaloi families who had first settled in the community 

of irisan during the early 1900s.