Sources for the Study of Family and Local History in Ballymoney

ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS
Location of Ballymoney
Counties & Baronies of  Ulster
Baronies & Parishes of  North Antrim
Poor Law Unions & Electoral Divisions
Townlands of  North Antrim
BALLYMONEY TOWN
Maps
Photographs
Street Directories 1905-1952
1901 Census Enumerators' Returns
Griffith's Revisions from 1864 to c.1900
1859 Griffith's Printed Valuation
1833 Townland Valuation
Street Directories 1824-1864
1814 Map of Town
1804-1810 Miller's List of Inhabitants
 

Townlands of North Antrim

Since the townland and the civil parish were key administrative divisions from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. It is important that you know which townlands were in which civil parish. The map in the table below covers the parishes of Ballymoney and Kilraghts.

Map of the Townlands in the Parishes of Ballymoney and Kilraghts

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If you want to know the townlands in other parishes in North Antrim, you can go to PRONI. The links in the tables below will take you to the PRONI site and directly to the parish that you have clicked on. The list of townlands in each parish is usually accompanied by a map where you can identify the townland by a number. Note that all of these links will open in a separate window - simply close the window when you have finished.

Barony of Lower Dunluce

Parishes
Ballyrashane
Ballywillin
Billy  (Much of the Parish of Billy is the Barony of Cary)
Derrykeighan
Dunluce

Barony of Upper Dunluce

Parishes
Ballymoney
Kilraghts
Loughguile

Barony of Kilconway

Parishes
Finvoy
Rasharkin

If you want to look for other parishes in County Antrim click here. If  a numbered map is not available to help you identify where the townlands are located within the parish, you can obtain Townland Index Maps for County Antrim from the Ordnance Survey Office in Belfast or visit the Local History Unit in Ballymena where they have copies that you can consult.

BALLYMONEY RURAL AREAS
Maps
Photographs
1905 & 1952  Directories
1901 Census Enumerators' Returns
Griffith's Revisions from 1864 to c.1900
1859 Griffith's Printed Valuation
1833 Townland Valuation
1825 Tithe Applotment
1803 Agricultural Census
ADDITIONAL SOURCES
Estate Records
General Social and Economic Sources
School Records
Church Records and Gravestone Inscriptions
Civil Records
 
 
 
Copyright 2006 W.Macafee.