BALLYEASTON,
a district parish, in the barony of UPPER ANTRIM, county of ANTRIM,
and province of ULSTER, on the road from Ballyclare
to Larne; containing with the post town of Ballyclare
and the grange of Doagh, 5892 in habitants.
It consists
of the ancient parishes of Ballycor
and Rashee, comprising according to
the Ordnance Survey, 13,790½ statute acres; about one-half of
which are arable. The village which is 1½ Irish miles (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 1s. 6½ d., per annum,
of which £69 4s. 7½ d., arises from the tithes, £13
6s. 11d., is added by the prebendary, and £20 from Primate Boulter’s
fund. The church was erected in 1786. There is neither glebe-house 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 Presbyterians; one in connection
with the Synod of Ulster, of the first class; 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.
