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BALLYLINNEY, a parish, in the barony of LOWER
BELFAST, county of ANTRIM, and province of ULSTER,
1 ½ mile (S. S. E.) from Ballyclare, on the road from
Belfast to Doagh; containing 2412 inhabitants. It com-
prises, according to the Ordnance survey, 5684 statute
acres (including 320 ½| in Ballywalter grange), which are
generally in a good state of cultivation. The living is
a vicarage, in the diocese of Connor, united from time
immemorial to the vicarage of Carmoney and the rec-
tory of Ballymartin; the rectory is impropriate in the
Marquess of Donegal. The tithes amount to £300, of
which £200 is payable to the impropriator, and £100
to the vicar. The church was destroyed by the insur-
gents under the Earl of Tyrone, and has not been re-
built; the churchyard is still used as a burial-ground
by the parishioners. In the R. C. divisions the parish
forms part of the union or district of Larne and Car-
rickfergus. There are three schools situated respectively
at Bruslie, Palentine, and Ballylinney, in which are 114
boys and 95 girls; also two pay schools, in which are
58 boys and 77 girls.
BALLYLONGFORD, a town, in the parish of AGHA-
VALLIN, barony of IRAGHTICONNOR, county of KERRY,
and province of MUNSTER, 4 miles (W. by S.) from
Tarbert; containing 1300 inhabitants. This town is
situated on the road from Tarbert to Ballybunnian, at
the head of an estuary or creek of the river Shannon,
and contains about 300 houses. Its position is favour-
able for the export trade, the creek forming a port for
lighters which carry corn and turf to Limerick; the
trade in turf is very considerable from the vast supply
afforded by the extensive tracts of bog in the vici-
nity, forming part of the possessions of Trinity College,
Dublin. The harbour has 16 feet of water at high tides,
and is capable of being made one of the best on the
Shannon; but that of Tarbert being considered to pos-
sess superior advantages, is more likely to be improved.
A fair or market is held every alternate Thursday, chiefly
for pigs and cattle. This place has a penny post depen-
dent on Tarbert. Petty sessions are held every Monday,
and, once in three weeks, a baronial court for the manor
of Carrig-a-foile; and here is a station of the con-
stabulary police. There are several gentlemen’s seats
in the vicinity, enumerated in the article on Aghavallin,
which see. The parochial church is situated about ¼ of
a mile to the north of the town, but having been con-
demned by the provincial architect as unworthy of re-
pair, it is expected that a new church will be shortly
built by the Ecclesiastical Board, at an estimated ex-
pense of about £650. The R. C. chapel in the town is
a spacious slated building with two galleries, erected in
1806 at an expense of £2000; and near it a large
building for a school has been lately erected, at a cost
of £350. Here is also a dispensary. In the vicinity of
the town, but in Kilnaughten parish, are the extensive
and picturesque ruins of Lislaghtin abbey.
BALLYLOUGH.—See BALLYDELOUGHY.
BALLYLOUGHLOE, a parish, in the barony of
CLONLONAN, county of WESTMEATH, and province of
LEINSTER, 4 miles (E. N. E.) from Athlone, on the road
to Mullingar; containing 4739 inhabitants. In 1795
a skirmish took place at the Five-mile House between
the peasantry and the yeomanry, in consequence of an
attempt to enforce the ballot for the militia. The parish
comprises 6194 acres, as applotted under the tithe act:
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the lands are generally in a good state of cultivation,
and under an improved system of agriculture; there
are about 70 acres of bog, but no waste land.. Lime-
stone abounds, and lead ore has been found, but no
vein has hitherto been discovered. Moydrum Castle,
the seat of Viscount Castlemaine, is a handsome castel-
lated mansion, erected in 1814, and beautifully situated
in an extensive demesne, on one side of which is a small
lake. The other seats are Glynwood House, that of
John Longworth, Esq., a handsome modern residence
near the road from Dublin to Athlone; Belvill,. of
Gustavus Jones, Esq.; Twyford, of E. Hodson, Esq.;
Ballinalack, of Christopher Adamson,Esq.; Cairn Park,
of W. G. Adamson, Esq.; and Coolvock, of F. Dillon,
Esq.; and on the eastern confines, near Moate, is Shu-
rock, the property of Sir W. Jackson Homan, Bart. A
manorial court is held alternately at Moate and Baylin
on the first Monday in every month. The living is a
rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Meath, with the
rectory and vicarage of Drumraney united by act of
council in 1804, and in the patronage of the Bishop;
the tithes of the parish amount to £360, and the gross
tithes of the benefice to £650. 15. 4 ½. The church, a
neat edifice of stone and in good repair, was erected in
1812, by aid of a loan of £400 from the late Board of
First Fruits; and the glebe-house was built by a gift
of £100 and a loan of £675 from the same Board, in
1809. The glebe comprises 32 acres of profitable land,
valued at £2. 15. 4 ½. per acre; and there is a glebe
in Drumraney of 33 acres, valued at £87. 9. per annum.
In the R. C. divisions the parish, also called Caulry,
is in the diocese of Ardagh, and is co-extensive with
that of the Established Church; the chapel is a large
building at Mount-Temple, attached to which is a school
under the National Board. A school at Baylin is sup-
ported by Lord Castlemaine, and another at the same
place, for girls, by Lady Castlemaine; and a school at
Ballinagarbery is supported by a bequest from the
late Dr. Maxwell. In these schools about 150 boys and
190 girls receive instruction: and there are also three
pay schools, in which are about 200 children. There
are several remains of ancient castles and Danish raths;
near the church is a remarkable moat, similar to that
at Castle-Kindelane; and there are also two mineral
springsin the parish. There was anciently a friary at
Farrenemanagh, near this place, which was in ruins at
the time of issuing an inquisition in the 3rd of Jas. I.,
but no vestiges of it can now be traced.
BALLYLOUGHNANE, a village, in the parish of
LOCKEEN, barony of LOWER ORMOND, county of TIP-
PERARY, and province of MUNSTER, 4 miles (S. W. by S.)
from Parsonstown; containing 28 houses and 143 in-
habitants. It is situated on the verge of the county,
and is separated from the King’s county by the river
Brosna.—See LOCKEEN.
BALLYMACALENNY.—SeeKILLESHANDRA.
BALLYMACARRETT, a town and parish, forming
part of the suburbs of BELFAST, in the barony of UPPER
CASTLEREAGH, county of DOWN, and province of ULSTER;
containing 5168 inhabitants. This place, previously to
1825, was simply a townland in the parish of Knock-
breda, or Bredagh, and in the history of the county,
published in 1744, is described as containing only two
buildings, Mount Pottinger and a mill. It is now be-
come a populous and flourishing town, occupying a site