BALLYSCULLION,
a grange, in the barony of TOOME, county of ANTRIM,
and province of ULSTER, 4 miles (N.W.) from Randalstown; containing
3351 inhabitants.
This place,
which is an extra-parochial district, never having paid either church
cess or tithes is situated on the road from Portglenone to Antrim,
and is bounded on the north-west by the river Bann; it comprises,
according to the Ordnance survey, 4279 ¼ statute acres.
There
is no provision for the cure of souls; the members of the Established
Church attend divine service in the contiguous parish of Duneane,
in the diocese of Conner.
In the
Roman Catholic divisions it forms part of the union or district
of Ballyscullion, in the diocese
of Derry ; the chapel is a small plain building ; there is also
a place of worship forPresbyterians.
