Ballymore Civil Parish
County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Barony | Orior Lower | Orior Lower |
Poor Law Union | Newry | Banbridge |
Catholic Diocese | Armagh Diocese | Armagh Diocese |
Catholic Parish | Ballymore & Mullaghbhrac (Tandragee) | Ballymore & Mullaghbhrac (Tandragee) |
BALLYMORE, or TANDERAGEE, a
parish in the barony of Lower Orior, county of Armagh, and province of
Ulster; containing, with the town of Tarderagee, the village of Clare, and
the greater part of the village of Poynty-Pass (all which are separately
described) 7963 inhabitants. This parish is situated on the road
from Newry to Portadown, and comprises, according to the Ordnance Survey,
14,158¾ statute acres, of which 13,958 are applotted under the tithe act
and valued at £10,052 per annum; about 100 acres are under plantation, 300
are bog, and 60 waste and water; the remainder is all arable land,
remarkably good and in a high state of cultivation, producing abundant
crops. There are veins of potters' clay and fullers' earth, both of
excellent quality and lying near the surface close to the town; but
neither have been worked. Several quarries in the parish yield
excellent building stone; that at Tullyhue is now being worked for
building the splendid castle of Tanderagee, and produces stone of very
superior quality. This castle, which is now being rebuilt by its
proprietor Viscount Mandeville, is situated near the town, and forms a
conspicuous and highly interesting feature in the view. The other
seats are Dromenargoole House, that of Davis Lucas, Esq.; Action House, of
Conway R. Dobbs, Esq.; Harrybrook, of R. Harden, Esq.; Cooley Hill, of R.
Hardy, Esq.; Orange Hill, of J. Creery, Esq.; and Derryallen, of J. Behan,
Esq. Fairs are held in the town on July 5th and Nov. 5th, and on the
first Wednesday in every month; and at Clare on May 12th, for horses,
cattle, and sheep. Courts leet. and baron are also held, the former
twice in the year, and the latter on the third Thursday in every month,
for the recovery of debts under 40s. Petty sessions are held in the
town every Tuesday. The living is a rectory, in the diocese of
Armagh, and the corps of the prebend of Ballymore in the cathedral church
of St. Patrick, Armagh, in the patronage of the Lord Primate; the tithes
amount to £1000. The church is a spacious and handsome structure, in
the early English style, with an embattled tower crowned with pinnacles,
and was erected in 1812, at an expense of £2200, of which £1500 was
a loan from the late Board of First Fruits, and £700 a gift from Lady
Mandeville; the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have lately granted £144 for
its repair. The glebe-house is a handsome residence, and the glebe
comprises 520 acres. In the R.C. divisions the parish is the head of
the union or district, called Tanderagee, which comprises also the
parishes of Acton and Mullaghbrack, and contains three chapels, one in
each parish; that of Ballymore is situated at Poyntz Pass. There are
meeting-houses at Tenderagee and Clare for Presbyterians in connection
with the Synod of Ulster, the former of the third and the latter of the
first class; another at Clare in connection with the Seceding Synod, and
of the first class; and places of worship for Primitive and Wesleyan
Methodists. The parochial school is supported by the rector, the
Dean of Tuam; five schools are supported by Lord Mandeville, two are aided
by annual donations from Lord Gosford and the Rev. Mr. Bell, and there are
three others, altogether affording instruction to about 580 boys and 440
girls; there are also three pay schools, in which are about 80 boys and
180 girls, and four Sunday schools. The interest of a bequest of
£100 by some member of the Montagu family is divided in equal shares among
the poor of the parishes of Ballymore and Seagoe. There are some
very slight remains of the ancient church, where are two extensive
cemeteries nearly adjoining each other, one exclusively for Protestants,
and the other for Roman Catholics; in the latter is interred the noted
Redmond O'Hanlon, the Irish rapparee. Near Ballynaback are two
chalybeate springs, which have been found efficacious in scorbutic
diseaseas. |
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Townlands
Available Presbyterian Records
Congregation | Births | Marriages | Proni Call Number |
Tandragee | 1830-1913 | 1935-1916 | MIC 1P/258 |
Clare | 1824-1945 | 1825-1936 | MIC 1P/50 |
LDS Film Numbers
Film Title | Film number(s) |
Tithe Applotments, 1830 | Pos #258446 |
Griffith's Valuation, 1864 | Pos #258750, 258751 |
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SURNAME | CONTACT |
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Civil Parish Links |
Griffith's Valuation Index, Ballymore Civil Parish, John Haye's website |
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