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This page contains Miscellaneous Lists
This is a list of the parishes that make up the various Poor Law Unions
in Co. Down
Name of the Poor Law Union | Names of the parishes in that Union |
Banbridge | Aghaderg, Annaclone, Dromara (1/3), Dromore (1/2), Drumballyroney (11/2), Drumgooland, Garvaghy, Magherally, Newry (1 only), Seapatrick & Tullylish |
Downpatrick | Ardglass, Ardkeen (1/2), Ardquin, Ballee, Ballyculter, Ballykinler, Ballyphilip,Ballytrustan, Bright, Castleboy, Down, Dromara (1/3), Dunsfort, Inch, Kilclief, Killinchy (1/2), Killyleagh, Kilmegan, Kilmore, Loughinisland, Magheradrool (1/2), Rathmullan, Saintfield (1/2), Saul, Tyrella & Witter |
Kilkeel | Kilbroney (most), Kilcoo, Kilkeel & Maghera |
Lisburn | Annahilt, Blaris, Dromara (1/3), Dromore (1/2), Drumbeg, Drumbo, Hillsborough, Killaney, Knockbreda, Lambeg, Magheradrool (1/2), Saintfield |
Newry | Clonallan, Clonduff, Donaghmore, Drumballyroney (1/2), Drumgath, Kilbroney (i only), Newry & Warrenpoint |
Newtownards | Ardkeen (1/2), Ballywalter, Bangor, Comber (most), Donaghadee, Dundonald, Greyabbey, Inishargy, Killinchy (1/2), Kilmood, Newtownards, Ballyhalbert & Tullynakill |
Table of ancient Irish land measurements
10 acres make 1 gneeve 2 gneeves make 1 sessiagh 3 sessiaghs make 1 tate (or ballyboe) 2 ballyboes make 1 ploughland (or seisreagh, or carrow) 4 ploughlands make 1 ballybetaghs (or townland) 30 ballybetaghs make 1 trioca cead (or barony) |
Note; Originally, these units were not fixed in area, but were
based upon the productivity of the land itself i.e. a gneeve in one area
might be bigger than two gneeves in another.
This would cause problems for fixed areas like the acre. |
This is a list of churches in the current phone book
and their addresses
This is list of current newspapers and their addresses
Name of newspaper | address |
Banbridge Leader | 25 Bridge Street, Banbridge |
Banbridge Chronicle | 14 Bridge Street, Banbridge |
Church of Ireland Gazette | 36 Bachelors Walk, Lisburn |
County Down Outlook | Castle Street, Rathfriland |
Down Democrat | Market Street, Downpatrick |
Down Recorder | 2-4 Church Street, Downpatrick |
Dromore Leader | 30a Market Square, Dromore |
Holywood Advertiser | 99 Princess Gardens, Holywood |
Mourne Observer | Castlewellan Road, Newcastle |
Newry Advertiser | 6 Abbey Yard, Newry |
Outlook Press | 72 High Street, Kilkeel |
Spectator Newspaper | 109 Main Street, Bangor |
Tee to Green | 103 Rubane Street, Kircubbin |
Ulster Star | 12a Bow Street, Lisburn |
Meaning of some
of the suffixes and prefixes of Irish townland names
I've collected this list from many sources over a period of years of research
Prefix or Suffix | Irish meaning |
annagh or anna | marsh |
ard | height or high |
bally | a settlement of some sort |
beg | little |
boy | yellow |
bro or broagh | edge of |
brae | a hill with a road over it |
burren | rocky area |
cahard | high bog |
cargy/ carrigan/ cargan/ cargin/ creggan | rocks |
carrick | a rock |
carrow | a quarterland , meaning part of a townland |
cashel | castle |
cill | church |
clief or cleithe | wattle or timber |
coinin or coney | rabbit |
cloch | stone |
clonta | a meadow |
coney or coinin | rabbit |
corragh | rugged or pointed |
cott | wooden boat |
craig | rocky or crag |
creevy | many branches; a wooden district |
cu - in people's names | a champion or graceful, swift, courageous |
curragh | marsh |
darragh | bulls |
derry | oak grove or woods |
donagh | church |
doo | black |
drin or dron | humps or ridges |
drum/ drom/ drim | translates as back but means a ridge or hill |
dun | fort of chieftains |
eden or edna | high brow (of a hill) |
fofann | a place abounding with thistles |
gar | short |
glas | green |
inish | island |
kil / killy | a church or sometimes a wood |
knock | a hill |
leggy | a hollow |
let | grave |
lis | fort |
lough | lake |
maghera | a plain |
meel | ants |
money | shrubs |
more | big |
na | of |
naive | saint |
ness | weasel |
neve | saint |
nua | new |
ra or rae | a level place |
rath | hill fort |
rin | ridge |
ros | a promontory or grove |
shannagh | foxes |
slieve | mountain |
talagh | a hillock |
tanagh | mound or rampart |
tieve | hillside |
tonnagh/ tonagh | a field, a woodland |
tooder | tanner |
tullach | hill |
tully | a hill or mound |
turk | boar |
This
is a list of people who subscribed to a charity in 1836
Co. Down, Ireland
Hillsborough Castle in Hillsborough town- Collection for The Poor House The Marquis of Downshire ( £150) ; the Earl of Hillsborough (£ 25) |
Parish Works Program for Blaris parish,Co. Down, Ireland in 1836 (OSM)
Court Leet Proceedings & Presentments in the Manor of Killultagh in Blaris parish were held twice a year. It was composed of a jury, the tenants of the manor who tax themselves for repairs of by-roads and for other purposes. The seneschal was William Gregg Esq. and the foreman was Thomas J. Smyth Esq. the secretary was Hale O'Flaherty. 19th September 1835 |
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25. To Daniel Magee for summoning the jury of Lisburn and Lissue, to be levied off the manor, 10 shillings. The applotters were Samuel and Thomas Young ; appraisers were William Hodgen and Samuel Young. |
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26. To John Cannon for taking care of and keeping the court house clean; to be levied off the manor £1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
27. To John Cannon for keeping the market house open and clear of carts etc.; to be levied off the manor £1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
28. To William Close for taking care of the meat market, Lisburn ; to be levied off the manor £2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
29. To William Gregg Esquire, to pay 6 men for taking care of and enforcing the regulations of the market and for their attendance at Glenavy Fair, to be levies off the manor, £14. |
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30. To William Gregg to keep the fire engines in repair and for working it, to be levied off the town of Lisburn, £4. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
31. To the seneschal for money he has to pay for weights and measures for the manor as required by the act; to be levied off the manor £27.10. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
32. To Mr Ward & Mr Mack to continue the curbing of the streets of Lisburn; to be levied off the town of Lisburn £50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
33. To John Fleming; to be levied off the manor and paid to John Fleming in full of all demands he has as to the old arrear claimed by him or repairs, he having been examined on oath as to same £7.10.0 |
Court Leet Proceedings & Presentments in the Manor of Killultagh in Blaris parish. The seneschal was William Gregg Esq., the foreman was Richard Rollo Haughton Esq. 28th May 1836 |
1. to the treasurer of the Fever Hospital; to be levied off the manor £52 |
2. to the treasurer of the Lisburn nightly watch; to be levied off the town of Lisburn for the support of that institution till 25 th March next £ 66 |
3. to Mr Ward, high constable, for collecting the manor charge and incidental expenses £13 |
4. to William Gregg Esq. and Ralph Jefferson for raising & repairing the pavement at the back of the market house in Lisburn; to be levied off the town of Lisburn £7.6.8 |
5. to William Gregg Esq. and the committee for continuing the curbing of the streets of Lisburn; to be levied off the town of Lisburn £50 |
6. to William Gregg Esq. to provide 6 coats for the town bailiffs and 2 for Denis Kennedy and John Dowdall; to be levied off the manor £15.15.0 |
7. to William Gregg Esq. to enable the streets of Lisburn to be kept clean and like sum each half year ;to be levied off the town of Lisburn £ 5.5.0 |
8.to Messrs. Parker Major & Hugh McCall to repair the grates at the sluice bridge in Lisburn; to be levied off the town of Lisburn £1. |
9. to Messrs. Robert Stewart, John Hill and William Whitla to paint, cast and repair the roof of the new market in Lisburn; to be levied off the manor £6.5.0 |
10. To Mr Bolton to alter the little house in Jackson's Lane by turning the seat from its present situation over the watercourse; to be levied off the town of Lisburn£1.10.0 |
11. To Mr Gamble to repair the main sewer of Smithfield; to be levied off the town of Lisburn £1 |
12. To Mr Beatty to lift and repair the bridge leading from Corkin's Lane over the Basin River; to be levied off the town of Lisburn £2.5.0 |
13.to William Close for taking care of the meat market, Lisburn; to be levied off the manor £3 half yearly |
14. To William Gregg Esq. for the half-year's salary of the 6 manor constables for their attendance on the markets and at Glenavy fair and taking care of the fire engines etc.£18.18.0 |
15. to Dean Stannus, H.T. Higginson Esq. and Mr Robert Stewart to continue sinking a pump in Long Stone, Lisburn, a re-presentment, presented formerly and not paid £10 |
16. To Christy Welden for keeping the pump in repair; to be levied off the town of Lisburn 15 shillings |
17. To the committee of the Fever Hospital to erect pillars and an iron gate at the back of the hospital; to be levied off the manor £6 |
18. To William Chapman for taking care of the pump in Pump Lane and keeping it in repair; to be levied off the town of Lisburn 10 shillings |
19. To Denis Kennedy, his salary as town crier; to be levied off the manor £2.2.0 |
20 to Joseph Thornton for ringing the market bell; to be levied off the town of Lisburn£1.10. |
21. To Joseph Thornton for winding up the town clock; to be levied off the town of Lisburn £1.10.0 |
22. To John Sitherwood for taking care of the town clocks, keeping them in repair and winding up the market house clock; to be levied off the manor £4 |
23. To the treasurer William Whitla Esq., his salary; to be levied off the manor (which sum he transfers to the poor) half a year to 1st May, £ 10 |
24. To the secretary, his salary to be levied off the manor, half a year to 1st May £5 |
25. To Mr Mulholland, Quay, for taking care of the chain at the quay; to be levied off the manor 10 shillings |
26. To John Dowdall for taking care of the butter market of Lisburn; to be levied off the manor £2.10.0 |
27. To Daniel Magee for summoning the jury of Lisburn and Lissue; to be levied off Lisburn and Lissue 10 shillings |
28. To John Cannon for taking care of the court house and keeping it clean; to be levied off the manor £1 |
29. To John Cannon for keeping the market house open for labourers etc. and clear of carts and cars; to be levied off the manor £1 |
30. To Mr Whitla to pay printing presentments etc.; to be levied off the manor £2 |
31. To William Gregg Esq. to pay for keeping the fire engine in repair and for working it; to be levied off the town of Lisburn; £4 |
32. To Thomas B. Reford and John Turtle to repair and widen Magee's town Lane in Tannyballydonnell, costs to be levied off Lower Ballinderry, £ 5. |
33. To Henry Peel and George Higginson to repair that part of the Old Templecormack Road between the burying place and William Maxwell's gate; to be levied off Upper Ballinderry at £2. |
38. To John Meares and Francis Hyde, under the inspection of Mr. Watson, to repair the crossroad leading from Brookhill Road to the Church Hill Road, to be levied off Upper Magheragall, £2. |
39. To Mathew Watson & Alex Tolerton to repair the lane from Megaberry to Trumery burying ground; to be levied off Magheramesk, £2.10.0; applotters for Magheramesk were Francis Turner & Oliver Hamilton; appraisers Edward Bell & John Belmer;Constable was Bennett Megarry; |
40. To William Hill and John Balmer to widen and repair 156 perches of Hill's Lane leading up to the lime kilns and quarries by Balmer's, Glenhead, to be levied off Magheramesk, £2.10.0. |
41. To Nathaniel Dickey and John Wardell, to repair the road leading from Mullacarton through Morusk to the new Lurgan Road, to be levied off Lower Magheragall, £5. |
42. To John Larmour and James Boyes to put a stone bottom on the new entrance now opened to the Glenavy Mill, to be levied off Lower Glenavy, £ 2. |
43. To Harden Byrne and James Johnson to repair the road between Ballinderry Lane end and the mill; to be levied off Upper and Lower Ballinderry £2 |
44. To Henry Barns and Henry McCorry to repair Derryhanaghan Lane from the main road to Lord Hertford's great moss; to be levied off Aghagallon £ 3 |
45. ToNathaniel Dickey for gravelling and repairing Buchanan;s hill, to be levied off Lower Magheragall, £3. |
46. To Hugh McCaw & David Connor for repairing the road called Lecky's Lane leading from the old meeting house to Moira road; to be levied off Upper Ballinderry £2 |
47. To John Taylor to repair the lane leading from Keary's house to Ballinderry pound; to be levied off Lower Ballinderry £1 |
48, to Joseph Corry to repair 1 and a half miles of the road leading through Drumshill and Morusk, commencing near the Low Quarters and ending at Martin's Pipe, to be levied off Lower Magheramesk, £2. |
49. To John Turtle and Jacob Douglass to repair the old road leading from John Turtle's to Balney's Bush, to be levied off Magheramesk, £ 2. applotment £7, no deduction |
50. To John Larmour to continue the range wall from Glenavy little bridge to William Ferris' house at the entrance of Glenavy Mill, to be levied off Lower Glenavy, £1. |
51. To William Watters and John Campbell to repair Kidd's Lane leading from Aghalee to Lisburn; to be levied off Aghalee, Aghagallon and Lower Ballinderry £4 |
52. To Thomas Boyes and James Culbert to repair the road from Haddock's town to the new road by James Culbert's, to be levies off Lower Ballinderry, £2. |
53. To Gaddis Thompson and Sergeant Thompson to repair Thompson's Lane leading through Killuntagh moss; to be levied off Upper Ballinderry £1 |
54. To John Linn and James Proctor to repair the road leading from Wright's road to McAnally's hill; to be levied off Magheragall £2 |
55. To Mr Henry Mulholland, Quay, to repair the road leading from Bridge Street, Lisburn to the quay; to be levied off the town of Lisburn£1 |
56. To John Larmour to repair part of the road leading from the late made Glenavy road and to make a flat pipe, to be levied off Camlin, £ 1. |
57. To Denis Kennedy for taking care of the butter market; to be levied off the manor at large £1 |
This is a list of tenant farmers who held
land in Loughriscouse townland, Newtownards parish in 1836 (OSM)
J. Blackstock- 1 acre; J. Brown- 3 acres; F. Chambers- 10 acres; J.M. Dalzel- 5 acres; Widow Dalzel- 12 acres; J. Eddie- 4 acres; John Eddie- 6 acres; G. Edgar- 1 acre; J. Edgar- 10 acres;Widow Edgar- 8 acres; G. Ferguson- 7 acres; Grace Ferguson- 1 acre; H. Ferguson- 7 acres; H. Ferguson- 3 acres; J. Ferguson- 2 acres; P. Ferguson- 5 acres; W. Ferguson- 7 acres; P. Fitzgerrald- 2 acres; J. Francis- 2 acres; Anne Gilmore- 1 acre; J. Kennedy- 4 acres; C. Lannely/Lonnely- 1 acre; H. Lanely-/Lonnely- 1 acre; Thomas McCann- 2 acres; W. McClure- 3 acres; J. McCuchen- 7 acres; Gilbert McCully- 1 acre; S. McCully- 4 acres; Hugh McCutcheon- 12 acres; J. McCutchen- 12 acres; J. McCutchen- 10 acres; John McCutchen- 7 acres; J. McDonnell- 1 acre; J. McDonnell- 3 acres; J. McGimpsy- 2 acres; J. McGimpsy- 2 acres; J. McGimpsy- 5 acres; James McGimpsy- 4 acres; Thomas McGimpsey- 10 acres; B. McGivren- 1 acre; H. McGivren- 1 acre; H. McGivren- 2 acres; Francis McGurren- 2 acres; R. McKee- 9 acres; R. Martin- 6 acres; Thomas Moon- 10 acres; A. Moore- 15 acres; T. Moore- 10 acres; John Pagen- 6 acres; J. Patton- 3 acres; J. Patton- 1 acre; L. Patton- 3 acres; S. Patton- 1 acre; W. Patton- 17 acres; J. Peadon- 6 acres; R. Peadon- 4 acres; W. Pollock- 5 acres; Samuel Robinson- 6 acres; John Stewart- 6 acres; J . Thompson- 1 acre; J. Thompson- 1 acre; S. Wallace- 11 acres; David Warnok- 10 acres; James Waugh- 17 acres; Widow Wilton- 2 acres; |
Old Irish Family Naming Patterns
Obviously the pattern gets muddled if the father & the grandfather had the same name. Names were often reused if the earlier child died |
County Genealogy & Heritage Centres
Newspaper listings held in Downpatrick Heritage Library
name of newspaper | dates held |
BANNER OF ULSTER Belfast | 10 June 1842 ? December 1863 2 January 1869 ? 31 August 1869 |
BELFAST COMMERCIAL CHRONICLE | 18 February 1805 ? 23 December 1812 January 1816 ? December 1817 18 August 1820 ?December 1829 January 1831 ? 30 August 1855 (17 April 1805 ? 21 December 1822 various dates) |
BELFAST EVENING POST | See Belfast Mercury |
BELFAST EVENING TELEGRAPH | 20 March 1871 ? 29 June 1918. Continued as Belfast Telegraph July 1918 ? January 25 1919 February 18, 1919 ? April 11, 1922 May 1922 ? April 1930 10 May 1930 ? 29 June 2002 1 August 2002 ? 7 January 2006 17 January 2006 ? January 2011 |
BELFAST MERCURY | 1783 ? 1786. Continued as Belfast Evening Post, 1786 ? 1787 |
BELFAST MORNING NEWS, predecessor of the Irish News | 23 November 1857 ? 27 April 1882. Continued as Morning News, Belfast 1May -23 July 1882. Continued as Morning News and Examiner, Belfast 24 July 1882 ? March 1883. Continued as Morning News, Belfast April 1883 ? September 1892 Irish news and Belfast Morning News October ? December 1892 2 |
BELFAST NEWSLETTER | 19 June 1752 ? 26 December 1754 3 January 1755 ? December 1975. Continued as Newsletter Belfast January 1976 ? December 1989. Continued as Ulster Newsletter, Belfast January 1990 ? 16 February 1991. Continued as News letter (Ulster Edition) 18 February 1991 ? 31 August 2000. Continued as News Letter Belfast 1 September 2000 December 2008 |
BELFAST PROTESTANT JOURNAL | 4 May 1844 -27 July 1850 |
BELFAST TELEGRAPH | See Belfast Evening Telegraph |
COUNTY DOWN SPECTATOR Bangor | 3 June 1904 ? 1916 1925 ? 1929 March ? November 1930 December 1930 ? April 1985 9 May ? 22 August 1985 5 September ? 23 December 1985 January 1986 ? September 1991 3 October ? 24 December 1991 January 1992 ? September 1996 3 October 23 December 1996 January 1997 ? June 1998 3 DOWN RECORDER 31 December 1836 ? 28 December 1839 1840 ? May 1856 July 1856 ? 1877 5 January 1878 ? 24 December 1880 1881 ? 1933 6 January 1934 ? 19 December 1936 1937 ? 1947 3 January 1948 ? 24 December 1949 1950 6 January 1951 ? 24 December 1953 9 January 1954 ? 24 December 1955 1956 ? 1959 9 January ? 24 December 1960 1961 ? June 1988 6 July ? 20 December 1988 January ? June 1989 5 July ? 20 December 1989 January ? 19 December 1990 January 1991 ? September 1992 7 October ? 22 December 1992 January - September 1993 6 October ? 22 December 1993 January ? September 1994 5 October ? 24 December 1994 January ? September 1995 4 October ? 20 December 1995 January 1996 - 2009 |
DOWNPATRICK BOARD OF GUARDIAN MINUTES | October 1877 -November 1893 |
DROMORE WEEKLY TIMES | 13 May 1905 -1929 1931 -1950 6 January 1951 ? October 1952 |
DUBLIN BUILDER | 1859 ? 1856 |
DUBLIN PENNY JOURNAL | 1832 ? 1856 vols. 1-4 4 |
THE GUARDIAN AND CONSTITUTIONAL ADVOCATE Belfast | 19 June 1827 -1834 2 January 1835 ? 23 March 1856 |
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS | 1845 -1851 |
IRISH BUILDER AND ENGINEERING RECORD DUBLIN | 1867 ? 1872 |
IRISH BUILDER DUBLIN | 1873 - 15 July 1877 1 August 1877 ? 15 December 1878 1879 ? 1900 |
THE IRISHMAN | 1819 ? 1821 1822 - 1825 |
IRISH NEWS | 15 August 1891 - 21 July 1922, 21 August 1922 ? 30 March 1926 10 April 1926 ? 30 June 1926 19 July 1926 ? 30 September 1926 11 October 1926 ? 19 January 1971 10 March 1971 ? 29 March 1986 April 1986 ? December 2009 |
IRISH TOPOGRAPHICAL PRINTS AND DRAWINGS | Reels 1 - 3 |
LAWRENCE COLLECTION | Cabinet No. 1 ? 16; No.1 - 9563 Imperial No. 1 ? 6; No. 1 ? 4449 Royal No.1 ? 18; No. 1 ? 11640 |
THE LEADER, Dromore | 1978 ? 1979 4 January ? 19 December 1980 1981 - 1984 5 |
MOURNE OBSERVER | 8th October 1949 ?December 2009 |
THE NATION | 15 October 1842 ? 30 December 1843 6 January 1844 ? 27 December 1845 31 January 1846 ? 24 December 1847 1 January ? 29 July 1848 1 September ?29 December 1849, paper not published July 1848 - September 1849 5 January 1850 ? 27 December 1851 January ? 25 December 1852 |
NEWTOWNARDS Board Of Guardians MINUTES | April 1846 ? October 1851 April 1853 ? May 1894 |
NEWTOWNARDS INDEPENDENT AND COUNTY DOWN ADVERTISER | 8 July 1871 ? 25 January 1873 |
NEWTOWNARDS CHRONICLE | 1874 ? December 1987 8 Jauary 1987 ? December 2009 |
NORTHERN STAR | 4 January 1792 ? 30 December 1793 2 January 1794 ? 31 December 1795 4 January 1796 ? 19 May 1797 |
NORTHERN WHIG | 23 April 1829 2 January 1832 - September 1963 |
RENT ROLL OF DOWNPATRICK | For 1669 |
THE ULSTER TIMES | 31 March 1836 ? 26 August 1843 17 November 1852 ? 31 January 1859 |
THE VINDICATOR | 1 May 1839 ? 5 February 1848 |
By Ros Davies