placenamesAhoghill
Achadh Eochaille
Ahoghill’s village belonged to a much wider nineteenth-century parish shaped by linen work and the valleys of the Bann and Maine.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Achadh Eochaille · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ahoghill · English · main form
Place & story
Village and parish
Lewis’s 1837 entry records 421 people in Ahoghill village within a parish population approaching fifteen thousand. Portglenone and twenty-one townlands had been separated from the parish in 1825. [2]
The linen landscape
Linen work connected Ahoghill with bleach-greens along the Maine. A monthly linen market was held in the village, alongside livestock fairs, drawing in goods from surrounding farms and workshops. [2]
David Adams and the 1859 revival
David Adams was ordained at First Ahoghill Presbyterian Church in June 1841 and remained its minister for almost forty years. The congregation’s institutional history identifies the opening of a new meeting house in August 1858 and the revival of the following year as major events of his ministry. [3]
Brookside, formerly Third Ahoghill, records thirty-four new communicants in the spring of 1859 and reports that the village’s three Presbyterian churches were crowded. Its history also records a ministerial change: James McClure Abernethy left for the Colonial Mission in Australia in April, and Robert Mitchell was installed in December. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Town
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Antrim Lower
- Barony
- Toome Lower
- Barony
- Toome Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.84571, -6.36526 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1411586 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ahoghill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ahoghill — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)
- Our History: David Adams and the 1859 Revival — First Ahoghill Presbyterian Church
- Our History — Brookside Presbyterian Church
- Former First Ahoghill Presbyterian Church (2009 exterior) illustration: based on a reference by Dean Molyneaux. AI watercolour/ink adaptation; clutter removed, margins added and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.