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Localities
Below are links to a number of
case studies of localities within the Ballymoney
District. There is also an internet link
to the Glens of Antrim Historical Society's Clachan
Project.
The town of Ballymoney is located within the townlands of Townparks and Glebe.
See this
Ordnance Survey map (scale six inches to the mile) which shows these
townlands and the extent of the town within them in 1833.
Click here for a map showing the townlands
within the parishes of Ballymoney and Kilraghts.
From this map you should be able to identify the
townlands included in the Seacon and Killyramer
locality studies.
The sources presented for the
localities of Ballymoney Town, Killyramer and Seacon
have been selected because they not only provide
information on what the locality was like in the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but also
because they provide the names of the persons living
in each locality at various times. Often family
names, and the properties in which they lived, can
be located precisely within a townland or street.
Furthermore, these properties and the persons living
in them can be matched across documents from at
least the Griffith's Valuation of c.1860, and its
subsequent revisions, to the Census Records of 1901
and 1911 -
read more. When combined with civil and church
records, this process will enable you to identify
where ancestors lived in the past.
Maps are a key
feature of these locality studies.
You might find this paper,
Some Notes on Ordnance Survey and
Valuation Map, 1830s to 1950s
useful.
Whilst this website will concentrate on North
Antrim, from time to time I will include some
locality studies outside the North Antrim area see
table below.
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