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BALLYDELOUGHY, or BALLYLOUGH, a parish,
in the barony of FERMOY, county of CORK, and pro-
vince of MUNSTER, 1½ mile (E. by N.) from Doneraile;
containing 718 inhabitants. This parish, which is situ-
ated near the river Funcheon, and on the south of the
road from Doneraile to Mitchelstown, comprises 1200
statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and
valued at £1891 per ann.: the soil is good, and limestone
exists in abundance. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of
Cloyne, and forms part of the union and corps of the
prebend of Glanworth in the cathedral of Cloyne; the
rectory is impropriate in the Earl of Donoughmore,
The tithes amount to £159. 16. 0½.. of which £69. 19. 5½.
is payable to the impropriator, and the remainder to the
vicar. The ruins of the church still remain in the burial-
ground. In the R. C. divisions also it is included in the
union or district of Glanworth: the chapel is at Ballyn-
dangan. About 50 children are educated in a private
school. The late Rev. John Kelleher, P. P. of Glan-
worth, bequeathed £50 towards the erection of a school-
house at Ballyndangan, in aid of which an application
will be made to the National Board. About a quarter
of a mile to the north of the ruins of the church are
those of the ancient castle of Ballylough. Ballyndangan
the ancient seat of the family of Terry, is now occupied
as a farm-house.
BALLYDONNELL, a parish, in the barony of ARK-
LOW, county of WICKLOW, and province of LEINSTER,
4½ miles (S. E.) from Rathdrum; containing 645 inha-
bitants. This parish, which is situated on the lower road
from Arklow to Wicklow, comprises 2803 statute acres.
It is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Dublin
and Glendalough, and forms part of the union of Cas-
tlemacadam: the ecclesiastical duties were separated
from that union by act of council in 1830, by which
Ballydonnell was included in the newly erected district
parish of Redcross, the church of which is situated in
that village.
BALLYDRASHANE. — See BALLYRASHANE.
BALLYDUFF, county of KERRY,—See BENMORE.
BALLYDUFF, a parish, in the barony of CORKAGXTI-
NEY, county of KERRY, and province of MUNSTER, 7½
miles (N. E.) from Dingle; containing 420 inhabitants,
of which number, 92 are in the village. This parish,
which is situated near the road from Dingle to Tralee,
comprises 9825 statute acres, as applotted under the
tithe act. Nearly one-half is mountain and bog, partly
reclaimable; that portion of the land which is under
tillage is of good quality. The only seat is Liscarney,
the property of T. B. Hussey, Esq. The village contains
15 houses, and is a constabulary police station. The
living is an impropriate curacy, in the diocese of Ard-
fert and Aghadoe, the rectory being wholly impropriate
in the Earl of Cork; the tithes amount to £55, payable
to the impropriator, out of which £10 per annum is
allowed for the discharge of the clerical duties. There
are some ruins of the church in the ancient burial-ground,
near which is a small glebe. In the R. C. divisions this
parish is included in the union or district of Castlegre-
gory. On the border of the parish is a romantic glen,
called Maharabo, where it is said the last wolf in this
part of the country was killed; the particular spot is
still called Wolf Step.
BALLYEASTON, a district parish, in the barony of
UPPER ANTRIM, county of ANTRIM,, and province of UL-
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STER. on the road from Ballyclare to Larne; containing
with, the post-town of Ballyclare and the grange of Doagh,
5892 inhabitants. It consists of the ancient parishes of
Ballycor and Rashee, comprising, according to the Ord-
nance survey, 13,790½ statute acres; about one-half of
which are arable. The village, which is 1½ Irish mile (N,)
from Ballyclare, is situated at the junction of several
roads, near the Six-mile-water, and in 1831 contained 61
houses. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the diocese
of Connor, and in the patronage of the Prebendary of
Carncastle: the income of the curate is £103, L 6½. per
ann., of which £69. 4. 7½ arises from tithe, £13. 6. 11.
is added by the prebendary, and £20 from Primate Boul-
ter’s fund. The church was erected in 1786. There is
neither glebe-hotise nor glebe. In the R, C. divisions
it forms part of the union or district of Carrickfergus
and Larne. There are four places of worship for Pres-
byterians; one in connection with the Synod of Ulster,
of the first class 3 one with the Presbytery of Antrim, of
the second class; one with the Seceding Synod, also
of the second class; and one for Covenanters, which is
open every alternate Sunday. There are four schools,
in which are about 140 boys and 90 girls; also nine pay
schools, in which are about 160 boys and 110 girls.
—See BALLYCLARE and DOAGII.
BALLYEGRAN, a village, in the parish of CASTLE-
TOWN-CONYERS, barony of UPPER CONNELLO EAST,
county of LIMERICK, and province of MUNSTER, 5 miles
(N. W.) from Charleville; containing 172 inhabitants.
This small village, consisting only of a few thatched
cabins, is situated on the road from Charleville to Bal-
lingarry, and gives name to the R. C. union or district,
comprising the parishes of Castletown-Conyers, Kil-
meedy and Drumcollogher 3 the chapel is a small build-
ing. Not far distant are the remains of a heathen
temple.—See CASTLETOWN-CONYERS.
BALLYELLIN, a parish, partly in the barony of
ST. MULLIN’S, but chiefly in that of Idrone East,
county of Carlow, and province of LEINSTER, adjacent
to Graigue and Goresbridge; containing I760 inhabit-
ants. This parish consists of two detached portions
separated by the parish of Slyguff, one of which contains
five townlands, and the other, two: it is bounded on
the north by the river Barrow, which separates it from
the county of Kilkenny, and over which there is a bridge
at Goresbridge; and comprises 5266 statute acres, of
which 4754 are applotted under the tithe act and valued
at £4052 per annum. Here is a quarry of black marble,
used for tombstones and chimney-pieces. Ballyellin
House is the residence of Walter Blackney, Esq. It is
a rectory, in the diocese of Leighlin, and forms part of
the union of Lorum: the tithes amount to £413, 1. 6½.
The ruins of the church are situated within a burial-
ground near, the road from Borris to Goresbridge. In
the R. C. divisions it is in the union or district of Bag-
nalstown or Dunleckney. On the lands of Clowater are
the ruins of a castle.
BALLYFARNON, a village, in the parish of KIL-
RONAN, barony of BOYLE, county of ROSCOMMON, and
province of CONNAUGHT, 3 miles (N, W-) from Keadue;
containing 150 inhabitants. This is an improving place,
and promises to increase in importance from the con-
templated new mail coach road from Carrick- on-Shannon
to Sligo, which is intended to pass through the village.
A customary weekly market has been established 3 and