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Barony Of Massereene Upper
Massereene Upper is a barony in southwest County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It roughly matches the former district of Killultagh (). Place Names NI. It includes settlements such as Crumlin, , , and Aghalee. To its east lies |
Irish Language
Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenous language, indigenous to the island of Ireland. It was the majority of the population's first language until the 19th century, when English (language), English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century, in what is sometimes characterised as a result of linguistic imperialism. Today, Irish is still commonly spoken as a first language in Ireland's Gaeltacht regions, in which 2% of Ireland's population lived in 2022. The total number of people (aged 3 and over) in Ireland who declared they could speak Irish in April 2022 was 1,873,997, representing 40% of respondents, but of these, 472,887 said they never spoke it and a further 551,993 said they only spoke it within the education system. Linguistic analyses o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castlereagh Upper
Castlereagh Upper (named after the former barony of Castlereagh) is a historic barony in County Down, Northern Ireland. It was created by 1841 with the division of Castlereagh into two. It is bordered by eight other baronies: Castlereagh Lower and Dufferin to the east; Lecale Lower and Kinelarty to the south; Iveagh Lower, Lower Half, Iveagh Lower, Upper Half, and Massereene Upper to the west; and Belfast Upper to the north. List of settlements Below is a list of settlements in Castlereagh Upper: Cities *Belfast *Lisburn Towns * Carryduff Villages * Ballygowan * Kilmore *Saintfield *Temple Population centres *Ballymacarrett * Newtownbreda List of civil parishes Below is a list of civil parishes in Castlereagh Upper: *Blaris (also partly in baronies of Iveagh Lower, Upper Half and Massereene Upper) * Comber (also partly in barony of Castlereagh Lower) * Drumbeg (also partly in barony of Belfast Upper) * Drumbo * Killaney * Killinchy (also partly in baronies of Castl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derriaghy
Derriaghy, (; also known as Derryaghy), (), is a townland (of 538 acres) and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, south-west of Belfast city centre. The townland is situated in the historic barony of Belfast Upper and the civil parish covers areas of both Belfast Upper and the barony of Massereene Upper. History The listed Church of Ireland building Christ Church in Derriaghy occupies the site of an early church. The earliest documentary reference to a church in Derriaghy is in a letter from Pope Innocent III in 1204. The Taxation of Down, Connor and Dromore of 1306-07 also mentions a church in Derriaghy. The records of an Inquisition in Antrim in 1605 indicate that the parish church of ''Dirreraghie'' was in some disrepair. Churches *Christ Church, Church of Ireland listed building *Derriaghy Gospel Hall *St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church Transport Derriaghy railway station was opened in 1907 and is between Dunmurry and Lambeg stations on the main Belfast-D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaris
Blaris () is a civil parish covering areas of both County Antrim and County Down, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic baronies of Castlereagh Upper and Iveagh Lower, Upper Half in County Down and Massereene Upper in County Antrim. It is also a townland of 543 acres, which contains the site of the Blaris medieval parish church, and is on the south-east side of the River Lagan, adjacent to Lisburn. History In the 1306 Papal Taxation the church is recorded as ''Ecclesia de Blaris''. In 1605 the townland of Blaris is recorded as ''Ballytempleblarisse'', (). In the mid-19th century the antiquarian William Reeves noted that very little of the church was intact, although the graveyard remained. Blaris old burial ground is in the townland of Blaris and is reputed to have had a church in mediaeval times. The oldest gravestone dates from 1626. Some of those who took part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 were executed outside the graveyard and are buried in an unmarked plot. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballinderry, County Antrim
Ballinderry is a civil parish and townland (of 1182 acres) in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Massereene Upper. Civil parish of Ballinderry The civil parish contains the villages of: *Lower Ballinderry * Upper Ballinderry Townlands The civil parish contains the following townlands: A Aghacarnan, Aghadavy, Aghanamoney, Aghanliss B Ballinderry, Ballykelly, Ballylacky, Ballymaclose, Ballymacrevan, Ballyscolly, Brackenhill C Cluntirriff, Crew Park D Derrykillultagh, Drumanduff G Gortrany K Kilcreeny L Legatirriff, Loughrelisk, Lurganteneil, Lurgill M Moneycrumog, Moygarriff P Portmore T Templecormac, Tullyballydonnell Notable people * Samuel Kelly, coal merchant and businessmanhttps://shippingtandy.com/features/john-kelly-belfast/ See also * List of townlands of County Antrim *List of civil parishes of County Antrim In Ireland County, Counties are divided into civil parishes in Ireland, civil parishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoneyford, County Antrim
Stoneyford (also known as Stonyford) is a small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is between Glenavy and Milltown, about 5 miles (8 km) north of Lisburn. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 318 people. It is situated in the Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council area. Stoneyford originated as a small settlement, historically referred to as Aghnalough (from the ). The Stoneyford River flows through the village from the east to Lough Neagh. Locally significant buildings include St John's Church built pre-1850, which is a listed building, and a pre 1830 two-story dwelling situated on Stoneyford Road. Places of interest The village is directly north of Stoneyford Reservoir, a popular angling spot for rainbow trout and brown trout. Recent history During a 1999 Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) investigation into the activities of the Orange Volunteers and the Red Hand Defenders, secret military intelligence files on almost 400 Irish repub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pond Park, County Antrim
A pond is a small, still, land-based body of water formed by pooling inside a depression, either naturally or artificially. A pond is smaller than a lake and there are no official criteria distinguishing the two, although defining a pond to be less than in area, less than in depth and with less than 30% of its area covered by emergent vegetation helps in distinguishing the ecology of ponds from those of lakes and wetlands.Clegg, J. (1986). Observer's Book of Pond Life. Frederick Warne, London Ponds can be created by a wide variety of natural processes (e.g. on floodplains as cutoff river channels, by glacial processes, by peatland formation, in coastal dune systems, by beavers). They can simply be isolated depressions (such as a kettle hole, vernal pool, prairie pothole, or simply natural undulations in undrained land) filled by runoff, groundwater, or precipitation, or all three of these. They can be further divided into four zones: vegetation zone, open water, bottom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
