Ballindrait () is a

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, village and

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, Ireland. Located near

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, the village and townland of Ballindrait is in the

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of Clonleigh and the

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. The

Burn Dale The Burn Dale ( Irish: ''An Daoil'', meaning 'the Black One' Patrick McKay, ''A Dictionary of Ulster Place-Names'', p. 54. The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, 1999.) is a burn or small river in the east o ...

flows through the centre of Ballindrait. Ballindrait (''Baile an Droichid'') was designated as a

by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) for the first time in the 2016 census, at which time it had a population of 170 people. The former Ballindrait railway station served the area from 1909 until 1960, and was on the

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line. The R264 regional road passes through Ballindrait village, where it crosses the

on Ballindrait Bridge (originally built ). The Presbyterian church (within the village) was built . St. Patrick's Church, usually known locally as Murlog Chapel, the local

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church (located outside the village in Murlough townland), was built in the 1960s to replace an earlier mid-19th century church. Also in Murlough townland is Ballindrait Windmill (built ).

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