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Ballylinney Civil Parish County Antrim, Ireland

BALLYLINNEY, a parish, in the barony of LOWER BELFAST, county of ANTRIM, and province of ULSTER, 1½ miles (S. S. E.) from Ballyclare, on the road from Belfast to Doagh; containing 2412 inhabitants.

It comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 5684 statute acres (including 302½ 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 rectory 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 insurgents under the Earl of Tyrone, and has not been rebuilt; the churchyard is still used as a burial-ground by the parishioners.

In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Larne and Carrickfergus. 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.

 

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19th Century Antrim Maps at Past Homes

 

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