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.
